• Media type: Book
  • Title: The history of English spelling
  • Contains: Introduction and overview -- England and English from the Romans to the Vikings -- The Old English roots of modern English spelling -- The decline and revival of English in the Middle English period -- The Franco-Latin element -- Some sound and spelling developments in middle and modern English -- The Greek contribution -- The exotic input -- Reformers, lexicographers and the parting of the ways.
    Introduction and overview -- England and English from the Romans to the Vikings -- The Old English roots of modern English spelling -- The decline and revival of English in the Middle English period -- The Franco-Latin element -- Some sound and spelling developments in middle and modern English -- The Greek contribution -- The exotic input -- Reformers, lexicographers and the parting of the ways.
  • Contributor: Upward, Christopher [Author]; Davidson, George [Author]
  • imprint: Chichester [u.a.]: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
  • Published in: The language library
  • Issue: 1. publ.
  • Extent: XIII, 376 S.; Ill., Kt
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9781405190237; 9781405190244
  • RVK notation: HD 198 : Aussprache, Sprecherziehung, Leseunterricht
    HE 325 : Wortgeschichte; Etymologie
  • Keywords: Englisch > Rechtschreibung > Geschichte
    Englisch > Phonetik > Aussprache
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • Status: Loanable