Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading
'Naomi Baron has succeeded in writing a fascinating yet erudite, and quite compact, history that draws together threads from a bewildering variety of sources.'-Pam Le Gassick, Society of Indexers'At one level,Alphabet to Emailis a fascinating chronological history of written English; at another, it is a carefully argued case for preserving the distinctions between oral and written language.'-Ilana Snyder, Journal of Sociolinguistics