Righting The Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling
- Author:
- David Wolman
- Publisher:
- Smithsonian Books
- Reviewed in:
- Winter 2008-09
- Category:
- General
Oregon freelance Wolman — a confessed weak speller himself — takes us on a journey into the past origins of the language and looks at the future of English as influenced by the digital age. Renaissance, millennium, diarrhea, camaraderies, feign, labyrinth, misspelling — are you able to spell them without a mistake? [Right now, this columnist is dealing with the harmonization or harmonisation of the European
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