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Index
Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction Chapter 1: The nature of the problem
Pooh and his friends on spelling
Chapter 2: The beginning Chapter 3: The size of the problem Chapter 4: Building the alphabet
Letter origins
Chapter 5: The basic weaknesses
Hope for us all
Chapter 6: Keeping things long
More than letters
Chapter 7: Keeping things short
Spelling as tragedy
Chapter 8: The first exceptions Chapter 9: Seeing the link
Forensic spelling
Chapter 10: Know your Latin and French
Spelling as reputation
Chapter 11: New letters for old Chapter 12: Old letters in new words
Tarzan learns to read
Chapter 13: Old sounds in new positions
Spelling as stratagem
Chapter 14: New sounds in old places Chapter 15: More exceptions
Avoiding the vulgar
Chapter 16: Showing the difference
Charles Dickens and his characters reflect upon spelling
Chapter 17: Noting the similarity
Silent letters
Chapter 18: New sounds in old letters Chapter 19: A printer’s practice
Mark Twain on spelling
Chapter 20: The urge to reform
George Bernard Shaw on spelling
Chapter 21: Remembering Latin Chapter 22: More etymologies
A word I always mispell
Chapter 23: Famous spellings Chapter 24: Spelling ‘rules’
Mrs Malaprop on reading and spelling
Chapter 25: The role of personalities Chapter 26: Another personality Chapter 27: Printers and publishers
Spelling wars
Chapter 28: Changing practices
Roger McGough on spelling
Chapter 29: The Internet
Lower case only
Chapter 30: Showing identity Chapter 31: Unpredictability
Ogden Nash on names
Chapter 32: Exotic vowels
Disenvowelling
Chapter 33: Exotic consonants
The spread of education
Chapter 34: Spelling noises
Unspellable noises
Chapter 35: Abbreviating Chapter 36: Learning the system
George Crabbe on learning
Chapter 37: The future of English spelling A teaching appendix
I Avoiding isolation II Towards a linguistics of spelling
Further reading Illustration credits Index of words General index
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