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This book is a sane, comprehensive and authoritative lesson in why we spell the way we do and why, in order to preserve the richness, subtlety and history of our language, it is right that we keep doing so. Simon Heffer, New Statesman There's plenty of interesting information here ... Horobin is a sane, sensible guide Henry Hitchings, The Guardian

This book is a sane, comprehensive and authoritative lesson in why we spell the way we do and why, in order to preserve the richness, subtlety and history of our language, it is right that we keep doing so. Simon Heffer, New Statesman

[A] lucid and fascinating study. Patrick West, Times Literary Supplement This book is a sane, comprehensive and authoritative lesson in why we spell the way we do and why, in order to preserve the richness, subtlety and history of our language, it is right that we keep doing so. Simon Heffer, New Statesman There's plenty of interesting information here ... Horobin is a sane, sensible guide Henry Hitchings, The Guardian

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Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. He has written extensively on the history of the English Language and is the author of An Introduction to Middle English and Chaucer's Language.

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