DAVID WOLMAN is a Contributing Editor at Outside. He has written for the Wired, the New York Times, New Yorker, Nature, and many other publications, and his work has been anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing series. He is the author of The End of Money, Righting the Mother Tongue, and A Left-Hand Turn Around the World. David lives in Portland, Oregon, with his family.
"A funny and fact-filled look at our astoundingly inconsistent
written language, from Shakespeare to spell-check."--St. Petersburg
Times
"An engaging ramble through our orthographic thickets"--Boston
Globe
"Sprightly history that sensibly balances the merits of
standardization against the forces for freedom."--Kirkus
Reviews
A lively, engaging look at the idiosyncratic derivations and
permutations of spelling in the English language.--Seattle Post
Intelligencer
An intellectual travelogue across the centuries that also ranges
geographically from the Litchfield haunts of Dr. Johnson, creator
of the first great English dictionary, to the Silicon Valley home
of Les Earnest, the progenitor of computerized
spell-checking.--Wall Street Journal
The lively, informative book is full of evidence/cocktail party
fodder proving that the English spelling system is a hopeless
tangle of French, Dutch, Latin, German and much, much more and
really makes no sense at all.--Portland Tribune
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