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Does Spelling Matter? 1st Edition

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ISBN-10: 0199665281
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (April 22, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0199665281
  • ISBN-13: 978-0199665280
  • Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 0.9 x 5.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 starsWhat's a few letters here and there?
By Steve Benner VINE VOICE on July 18, 2013
Format: Hardcover
Simon Horobin is professor of English Language and Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford. His latest book, "Does Spelling Matter?", whilst aimed at the interested non-specialist, presents a scholarly history of the forms of written English over the ages. There are times, especially in the early parts of the book, where it is perhaps a little too scholarly, offering heavy going for the lay reader. For those able to stay the course, though, the book presents much that is fascinating about the English language and its idiosyncrasies of spelling, debunking countless popularly upheld myths along the way. It stands as a competitor to David Crystal's "Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling", which made it into the best-seller lists when it was released last year. I do not expect this latest look at the history, make-up and potential future of English spelling to do as well as its predecessor in the popularity charts; Prof Horobin's erudition and academic rigour standing somewhat at odds with the more popularising style of Prof Crystal. Lovers of words, their form and their function, will nevertheless find much to savour between its covers.

The book's eight chapters chronicle the history of our written language from its earliest roots and origins in Anglo-Saxon England, through its re-emergence from suppression by the invaders' Norman French in the late Middle Ages, its renaissance during the Early Modern period of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries and into the great definitive spelling age of the modern dictionary-ruled period.Read more ›
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