Spell It Out

2013-06-18
 |  Language Arts & Disciplines
Spell It Out

Author: David Crystal

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

ISBN: 9781250028860

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 336

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The fascinating and surprising history of English spelling from David Crystal, everyone's favorite expert logophile With The Story of English in 100 Words, David Crystal took us on a tour through the history of our language. Now, with Spell It Out, he takes on the task of answering all the questions about how we spell: "Why is English spelling so difficult?" Or "Why are good spellers so proud of their achievement that when they see a misspelling they condemn the writer as sloppy, lazy, or uneducated?" In thirty-seven short, engaging and informative chapters, Crystal takes readers on a history of English spelling, starting with the Roman missionaries' sixth century introduction of the Roman alphabet and ending with where the language might be going. He looks individually at each letter in the alphabet and its origins. He considers the question of vowels and how people developed a way to tell whether or not it was long or short. He looks at influences from other cultures, and explains how English speakers understood that the "o" in "hopping" was a short vowel, rather than the long vowel of "hoping". If you've ever asked yourself questions like "Why do the words "their", "there" and "they're" sound alike, but mean very different things?" or "How can we tell the difference between "charge" the verb and "charge" the noun?" David Crystal's Spell It Out will spell it all out for you.

The Halloween Truth Spell

2020-10-27
 |  Fiction
The Halloween Truth Spell

Author: Morgana Best

Publisher: Best Cosy Books

ISBN: 9781922420701

Category: Fiction

Page:

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Sometimes, truth hurts . . . When the demanding Marina Mercer forces Amelia to do a truth spell over shares in a goldmine, Amelia expects nothing will go wrong. But when Marina's tenant is murdered in gold blood, Marina's boyfriend becomes the prime suspect. Now Alder is furious at Amelia for once again finding herself an Australian Sherlock Holmes searching for nuggets of information—but she can’t worry about that now. The real murderer is difficult to dig up, and with half the townspeople telling the truth, Amelia is starting to suspect that the truth won’t set you free, but plunge you into trouble. The Halloween Truth Spell is Book 15 in this paranormal cozy mystery series from USA Today Bestselling author, Morgana Best.

Spell It Out

2012-09-06
 |  Language Arts & Disciplines
Spell It Out

Author: David Crystal

Publisher: Profile Books

ISBN: 9781847658227

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 254

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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.

Wait for Me

2019-12-16
 |  Fiction
Wait for Me

Author: Tia Louise

Publisher: TLM Productions LLC

ISBN:

Category: Fiction

Page: 244

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Taron Rhodes was my brother’s best friend. He was sexy as sin. But he was more than that… He was ponytail-pulling, ice down your shirt teasing, throw you in the lake screaming… Strong, tanned arms and blue-green eyes over a heart-stopping, naughty grin… Did I mention his tight end? I gave him my first real kiss, my heart, my everything. I said I’d wait for him… I’m still waiting, because Taron Rhodes is still the man of my dreams, And I have a secret that has his blue-green eyes. Noel LaGrange stole my heart when she was only eighteen—pushing me off a flatbed and calling me a city slicker. Her brother Sawyer would kick my ass if he knew how many times we made out that summer, how close we got. Everything changed when Sawyer and I joined the military. We were honorably discharged, but I didn’t go to her. Instead, I went back to the city… where no amount of money, no amount of pills can heal this wound. Only her whiskey eyes and dark hair, her slim arms and her sweet scent, give me hope. I broke her heart just as surely as I broke mine, but I’m going back to make it right. If she’s still waiting… (WAIT FOR ME is a STAND-ALONE small-town, second-chance romance with a guaranteed HEA. No cheating. No cliffhangers.)

Life of Alexander H. Stephens

1883
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Life of Alexander H. Stephens

Author: Richard Malcolm Johnston

Publisher:

ISBN: OXFORD:N10592513

Category:

Page: 732

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Alexander H. Stephens was a career politician who served as a United States senator and representative from Georgia, both before and after the Civil War. He also served as the vice president of the Confederate States of America. This biography is drawn from a wealth of correspondence, journals, notes of conversations, letters to his brother Linton, speeches and other records of his public life.