An authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date survey of this important but hitherto neglected area of the English language. It includes examples, statistics an

The History of English Spelling “Fifty years ago, G. H. Vallins contributed a book on spelling to the Language Library. Since then, there have been several ma

This comprehensive and systematic review of modern English presents a description of both the linguistic structure of present-day English and its geographical,

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