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Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling
Righting the Mother Tongue From Olde English to Email the Tangled Story of English Spelling
Author: David Wolman
When did ghost acquire its silent h? Will cyberspace kill the one in rhubarb? And was it really rocket scientists who invented spell-check? In Righting the Mother Tongue, author David Wolman tells the cockamamie story of English spelling, by way of a wordly adventure from English battlefields to Google headquarters....  more »
ISBN-13: 9780061369261
ISBN-10: 0061369268
Publication Date: 4/1/2010
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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