Spell It Out The singular story of English spelling

Spell It Out The singular story of English spelling

AngličtinaMäkká väzba
Crystal David
Profile Books Ltd
EAN: 9781846685682
Na objednávku
Predpokladané dodanie v pondelok, 22. apríla 2024
12,69 €
Bežná cena: 14,10 €
Zľava 10 %
ks
Chcete tento titul ešte dnes?
kníhkupectvo Megabooks Banská Bystrica
nie je dostupné
kníhkupectvo Megabooks Bratislava
nie je dostupné
kníhkupectvo Megabooks Košice
nie je dostupné

Podrobné informácie

Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to their foreign ears, and it stuck. Seventy-five per cent of English spelling is regular but twenty-five per cent is complicated, and in Spell It Out our foremost linguistics expert David Crystal extends a helping hand to the confused and curious alike. He unearths the stories behind the rogue words that confound us, and explains why these peculiarities entered the mainstream, in an epic journey taking in sixth century monks, French and Latin upstarts, the Industrial Revolution and the internet. By learning the history and the principles, Crystal shows how the spellings that break all the rules become easier to get right.
EAN 9781846685682
ISBN 1846685680
Typ produktu Mäkká väzba
Vydavateľ Profile Books Ltd
Dátum vydania 19. septembra 2013
Stránky 336
Jazyk English
Rozmery 196 x 128 x 28
Krajina United Kingdom
Autori Crystal David
Edícia Main