The History of English Spelling reveals the history of Modern English spelling, tracing its origins and development from Old English up to the present day.

• Includes a wealth of information and data on English spelling not available anywhere else
• Features a complementary website with additional material at www.historyofenglishspelling.info
• Includes detailed coverage of the contributions from French, Latin, Greek – and the many other languages – to our current orthography
• Serves as a companion volume to Geoffrey Hughes’s A History of English Words in the same series