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Why Is English Spelling So Damn Odd?: What the Quirks of Our Language Say About Us
Harry Bingham
ASIN: B00LX9FDOA
Publisher: Sheep Street Books
Pages: 48

Why Is English Spelling So Damn Odd? George Bernard Shaw, a would-be spelling reformer, complained that, in English, the word FISH could be spelled GHOTI. That's GH as in rough, O as in women, and TI as in nation. But that's only the very tip of a whole iceberg of problems. Why is there a B in debt? Who the heck thought you should spell pterodactyl with that initial P? Why on earth are police and polite pronounced so differently? All these questions have answers of course - ones that lie right back in English history, when the Masters of Chancery began to formalize spellings for a language that had barely been written down for the past 300 years. In effect, the strange spellings of English are like tree rings, fossilizing ancient features of our tongue. Why are English Inflections so Damn Simple? If English spelling is weird, then English inflectional grammar is weirdly simple. So ...
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