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xiii, 251 pages ; 24 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-235) and index Characteristics of writing systems -- Pictograms and logograms -- Syllables -- Alphabets -- History of the English alphabet -- Alternative forms of written English -- English punctuation marks -- The ancestry of spoken English: Indo-European origins -- The Germanic heritage -- Backgrounds of Old English -- Backgrounds of Middle English: the Norman Conquest -- From Old to Middle English -- Middle English pronunciation -- The transition from Middle English to Modern English -- Backgrounds of English spelling -- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century authoritarianism: backgrounds of the English dictionary -- The English dictionary from the Eighteenth century on -- Transplanting the English language to America -- Noah Webster -- Early American spelling -- Alphabet reform -- Simplified spelling -- Rejection of the Alphabetic Code I: Horance Mann -- Rejection of the Alphabetic Code II: through the Nineteenth Century to today -- Emphasizing regular patterns first -- Nonphonemic spelling patterns as an advantage of written English -- Epilogue

Author

Miriam S Balmuth

Publisher

Teachers College, Columbia University

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807728369

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Linguistics

Updated

2026-03-24