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451 pages • first pub 2012 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781847658227
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Profile books
Edition Pub Date: 01 September 2012
Description
Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to t...
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451 pages • first pub 2012 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781847658227
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Profile books
Edition Pub Date: 01 September 2012
Description
Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to t...