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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 the foreign ears and it stuck. This book unearths the stories behind the rogue words that confound us.
TITLE: Spell It Out
AUTHOR: David Crystal
SKU: 9781846685675
PUBLISHER: Profile Books Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED: 02/09/2012
PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom
PAGES: 224
BINDING: Hardback
LANGUAGE: English
DIMENSIONS: 138 mm x 204 mm x 32 mm
WEIGHT: 450 gr