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"Righting the Mother Tongue" tells the cockamamie story of English spelling. When did "ghost" acquire its silent 'h'? Will cyberspace kill the one in "rhubarb"? And was it really rocket scientists who invented spell-check? Seeking to untangle the twisted story of English spelling, David Wolman takes us on a wordly adventure from English battlefields to Google headquarters. Along the way, he pickets with spelling reformers outside the national spelling bee, visits the town in Belgium, not England, where the first English books were printed, and takes a road-trip with the boss at Merriam-Webster Inc. The journey is punctuated by spelling battles waged by the likes of Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and the members of today's Simplified Spelling Society. Rich with history, pop culture, curiosity and humor, "Righting the Mother Tongue" explores how English spelling came to be, traces efforts to mend the code and imagines the shape of tomorrow's words.
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