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The History of English Spelling: The Language Library

Autor C Upward
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 aug 2011
The History of English Spelling reveals the history of Modern English spelling, tracing its origins and development from Old English up to the present day. * Includes a wealth of information and data on English spelling not available anywhere else * Features a complementary website with additional material at www.historyofenglishspelling.info * Includes detailed coverage of the contributions from French, Latin, Greek - and the many other languages - to our current orthography * Serves as a companion volume to Geoffrey Hughes's A History of English Words in the same series
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781405190237
ISBN-10: 140519023X
Pagini: 392
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Wiley
Seria The Language Library

Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Undergraduate level students for courses in English language; general readership

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Christopher Upward (1938-2002) was a Senior Lecturer in German at Aston University in Birmingham until his retirement in 1995. For many years Upward was a member of the committee of the Simplified Spelling Society (now known as the English Spelling Society), and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society. He was also an Associate Editor of The Oxford Companion to the English Language (1992), and prepared two editions of Cut Spelling: A handbook to the simplification of written English by omission of redundant letters (Simplified Spelling Society 1992, 1996). George Davidson is a freelance lexicographer, book compiler and editor. He has written several books on English grammar, usage, spelling, and vocabulary, such as How to Punctuate (2005) and Improve Your Spelling (2005), and has edited numerous books, including the 150th Anniversary Edition of Roget's Thesaurus of English Words & Phrases (2002). He has formerly worked as a French teacher and lecturer in linguistics.

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* Includes a wealth of information and data on English spelling not available anywhere else * Features a complementary website with additional material at www. historyofenglishspelling.