The Story Of English Spelling Is The

A Feature Of English That Makes It Different Compared With All Other Languages Is Its Global Spread.

The Story Of English Spelling Is The Story Of Thousands Of People - Some Well-known, Most Totally Unknown - Who Left A Permanent Linguistic Fingerprint On Our Orthography.

At Any One Time Language Is A Kaleidoscope Of Styles, Genres And Dialects.

Several Of Us Linguists At That Time Would Record Our Own Kids, Just To Get Some Data. There Was Some Literature On It Then, But No Day-by-day, Blow-by-blow Examples. I Recorded All My Children Over The Years In Some Shape Or Form. It's What Linguists Do. You Don't Talk To A Linguist Without Having What You Say Taken Down And Used In Evidence Against You At Some Point In Time.

Research Shows That Those Kids Who Text Frequently Are More Likely To Be The Most Literate And The Best Spellers, Because You Have To Know How To Manipulate Language.