Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling New York Daily News It\'s not as hard as

It\'s not as hard as you think

For the first time

Publisher: Ecco

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Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling New York Daily News It\'s not as hard asWhen did ghost acquire its silent h? Will cyberspace kill the one in rhubarb? And was it really rocket scientists who invented spell check? In Righting the Mother Tongue, author David Wolman tells the cockamamie story of English spelling, by way of a wordly adventure from English battlefields to Google headquarters. Along the way, he joins spelling reformers picketing the national spelling bee, visits the town in Belgium not England where the first