![]() ![]() It was very poorly organized without a clear mission that I could glean. There were photos of stupid spelling mistakes in newspapers (but they weren’t very good ones) and lists of differences between English English and American English, quotations from various famous people about spelling, lists of ways our modern culture has bastardized the language further with things like internet acronyms, texting language, etc. It’s a mixed bag of things cobbled together into a hodge podge of semi-related things-tests that see how well you can spell, blurbs about the evolution of the English language and how some words evolved over time, a review of some of the rules and fallacies of spelling, including the “i before e except after c” rule (which doesn’t hold much water, by the way) and various and sundry other things. ![]() ![]() I thought it was somewhat of a rant against bad spellers, but it isn’t, really. I’m not really sure what the purpose of the book is supposed to be. ![]()
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