Righting the mother tongue

from Olde English to email, the tangled story of English spelling

1st ed.
  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read
Righting the mother tongue
David Wolman
Not in Library

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list


  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

Buy this book

Last edited by ImportBot
September 26, 2008 | History

Righting the mother tongue

from Olde English to email, the tangled story of English spelling

1st ed.
  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

This edition doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one?

Publish Date
Language
English

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Edition Availability
Cover of: Righting the mother tongue
Righting the mother tongue: from Olde English to email, the tangled story of English spelling
2008, Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins
in English - 1st ed.

Add another edition?

Book Details


Table of Contents

War of the words
Crossed
Regime change
Page setup
Valiant exterminators of dialectical vermin
Outlaw orthography
A first class man
Spellraisers
Of yachts and yetterswippers
Fixers
The rubarb on the Internet.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
421/.52
Library of Congress
PE1141 .W65 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16900163M
ISBN 10
006136925X
ISBN 13
9780061369254
LCCN
2008023424

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
December 4, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
November 15, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
February 28, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
December 20, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
July 16, 2019 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book