How did English spelling get to be so twisted? Who’s to blame for the h in ghost? Who’s to thank for the marvel of spellcheck? Righting the Mother Tongue tells the tale of one untalented speller’s journey into the past, present and future shape of our words. Not all of ’em of course, but many, especially the tricky ones. You’ve persevered in spite of them your whole life: separate, hors d’oeuvres, millennium, occasionally, accommodation, perseverance. The story of English spelling history is as delightful as it is serpentine, punctuated along the way by encounters with word-obsessed characters like Noah Webster, Theodore Roosevelt and George Bernard Shaw. From spelling bee champions and dyslexia researchers, to the creators of spellcheck and the word gurus at Google, Righting the Mother Tongue is an around-the-world attempt to make a little sense of it all.
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