Handbook of Simplified Spelling
Author : Simplified Spelling Board
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Spelling reform
ISBN :
Author : Simplified Spelling Board
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Spelling reform
ISBN :
Author : Christopher Upward
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 38,39 MB
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1444342975
The History of English Spelling “Fifty years ago, G. H. Vallins contributed a book on spelling to the Language Library. Since then, there have been several major surveys, and new opportunities to explore the history of English words. The time is therefore ripe for a fresh presentation, and this is what George Davidson has done, building on the huge collection of historical data amassed by Christopher Upward, and giving it narrative shape. I have been waiting for a source-book like this for a long time, and I’m delighted that it has found a place in this series.” David Crystal, Language Library series editor Few languages are riddled with as many spelling inconsistencies and irregularities as English. Why is there such dissonance between the sounds of English and the spelling used to represent them? The answer lies in the history of the language itself. The History of English Spelling reveals the rich and complex history of Modern English spelling, tracing its origins and development from Old English up to the present day. The book provides a highly detailed, letter-by-letter analysis of the Old English basis of Modern English spelling, followed by in-depth coverage of the contributions from French, Latin, Greek and the many other languages that have contributed to current orthography. Upward and Davidson also explore events in the socio-political history of England as the setting for developments in spelling, along with the works of a number of lexicographers (especially Johnson and Webster), and various proposals for spelling reform. The History of English Spelling reveals the richness of the complex and often frustrating alphabetic spelling system used in the English language. A complementary website with additional research material can be found at www.historyofenglishspelling.info
Author : Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 39,97 MB
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110807092
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Author : Robert Eugen Zachrisson
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Author : Noah Webster
Publisher :
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 1841
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Simon Horobin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,28 MB
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0199665281
The book narrates the history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxons to the present-day. It also examines the changing attitudes to spelling, including numerous proposals for spelling reform, ranging from the introduction of new alphabets to more modest attempts to rid English of its silent letters, and the differing agendas they reveal.
Author : Richard L. Venezky
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 1999-07-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781572304697
Can ghoti really be pronounced fish? Why is "o" short in glove and love, but long in rove and cove? Why do English words carry such extra baggage as the silent "b" in doubt, the silent "k" in knee, and the silent "n" in autumn? And why do names like Phabulous Phoods and Hi-Ener-G stand out? Addressing these and many other questions about letters and the sounds they make, this engaging volume provides a comprehensive analysis of American English spelling and pronunciation. Venezky illuminates the fully functional system underlying what can at times be a bewildering array of exceptions, focusing on the basic units that serve to signal word form or pronunciation, where these units can occur within words, and how they relate to sound. Also examined are how our current spelling system has developed, efforts to reform it, and ways that spelling rules or patterns are violated in commercial usage. From one of the world's foremost orthographic authorities, the book affords new insight into the teaching of reading and the acquisition and processing of spelling sound relationships.
Author : Anatoly Liberman
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 25,1 MB
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195387074
A guide to the science and process of etymology for the layperson explains how the origins and history of hundreds of words are determined, discussing such topics as folk etymology, changes of meaning in language history, borrowed words, and the methods of etymology.
Author : D. G. Scragg
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 1974
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780719005534
Author : Francis Andrew March
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 1893
Category : English language
ISBN :