Righting the mother tongue
Subtitle: from Olde English to email, the tangled story of English spelling
By: David Wolman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780061369254
Subjects: English language -- Orthography and spelling -- History
Table of contents: title: War of the words; title: Crossed; title: Regime change; title: Page setup; title: Valiant exterminators of dialectical vermin; title: Outlaw orthography; title: A first class man; title: Spellraisers; title: Of yachts and yetterswippers; title: Fixers; title: The rubarb on the Internet.