Righting the Mother Tongue

“A funny and fact-filled look at our astoundingly inconsistent written language, from Shakespeare to spell-check.” — St. Petersburg Times Righting the Mother Tongue  tells the cockamamie story of English spelling. When did  ghost  acquire its silent ‘h’? Will cyberspace kill the one in  rhubarb ? And was it really rocket scientists who invented spell-check? Seeking to untangle the twisted story of English spelling, David Wolman takes us on a wordly adventure from English batt