Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems
Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems

Author: Joshua A. Fishman

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-09-25

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 3110807092

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

THE CLEARSPELL SYSTEM OF SPELLING REFORM
THE CLEARSPELL SYSTEM OF SPELLING REFORM

Author: Professor Alice Coleman

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-08-02

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1291982396

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Spoken English is ideal but written English has the world's worst spelling. Now Professor Coleman, a long-time expert, presents Clearspell, with ten great reform benefits making the spoken and written forms agree logically, clearly and concisely. Clearspell is unambiguous. A Clearspell word sounds exactly as the spelling indicates - unlike a vast number of words with the usual spelling. English spelling is famously hard to learn. For foreign students Clearspell is a real boon. But it is a spelling system in its own right. Read this book and see how much easier it could all be.

English spelling and spelling reform
English spelling and spelling reform

Author: Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-07-10

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13:

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"English spelling and spelling reform" by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Word Origins And How We Know Them
Word Origins And How We Know Them

Author: Anatoly Liberman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-04-13

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0199889015

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Written in a funny, charming, and conversational style, Word Origins is the first book to offer a thorough investigation of the history and the science of etymology, making this little-known field accessible to everyone interested in the history of words. Anatoly Liberman, an internationally acclaimed etymologist, takes the reader by the hand and explains the many ways that English words can be made, and the many ways in which etymologists try to unearth the origins of words. Every chapter is packed with dozens of examples of proven word histories, used to illustrate the correct ways to trace the origins of words as well as some of the egregiously bad ways to trace them. He not only tells the known origins of hundreds of words, but also shows how their origins were determined. And along the way, the reader is treated to a wealth of fascinating word facts. Did they once have bells in a belfry? No, the original meaning of belfry was siege tower. Are the words isle and island, raven and ravenous, or pan and pantry related etymologically? No, though they look strikingly similar, these words came to English via different routes. Partly a history, partly a how-to, and completely entertaining, Word Origins invites readers behind the scenes to watch an etymologist at work.