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Spell it Out: The Story of English Spelling
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Spell it Out: The Story of English SpellingSpell it Out: The Story of English Spelling

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.
 
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Agatha Christie – Death Comes as the End
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Agatha Christie – Death Comes as the EndChristie delivers a tale of deception and murder in an extended family of upper-caste Egyptians of 2000 BC. Rarely have the sniveling sounded so uxorious, the good so innocent, or the murderous so deceiving.
Reuploaded Thanks to ValerieV
 
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Tags: Christie, uxorious, sounded, innocent, murderous, deceiving, REUPLOAD, Reuploaded