by David Wolman
3. Vivian Cook, Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary: Or Why Can’t Anybody Spell? (New York: Touchstone, 2004), 21.
4. David Crystal, The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006), 163–164.
5. George Bernard Shaw, Preface to The Miraculous Birth of Language (London: Guild Books, 1941) 18.
CHAPTER 9: OF YACHTS AND YETTERSWIPPERS
1. Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (New York: Harper, 2007) 3, 11.
2. “English a Factor in Dyslexia,” Associated Press, March 15, 2001.
3. Timothy Bates, personal interview, March 2007.
4. Anne Castles, personal interview, April 2007; Richard Olson, personal correspondence, June 2007.
5. E. Paulesu, E. McCrory, F. Fazio, L. Menoncello, N. Brunswick, S. F. Cappa, M. Cotelli, G. Cossu, F. Corte, M. Lorusso, S. Pesenti, A. Gallagher, D. Perani, C. Price, C. D. Frith, and U. Frith, A cultural effect on brain function, Nature Neuroscience 3(1) (2000), 91–96.
6. W.T. Siok, Z. Niu, Z. Jin, C.A. Perfetti, and L.H. Tan, A Structural-Functional Basis for Dyslexia in the Cortex of Chinese Readers, proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, online April 7, 2008, 10.1073/PNAS.0801750105
7. E. Paulesu, E. McCrory, F. Fazio, L. Menoncello, N. Brunswick, S. F. Cappa, M. Cotelli, G. Cossu, F. Corte, M. Lorusso, S. Pesenti, A. Gallagher, D. Perani, C. Price, C. D. Frith, and U. Frith, A cultural effect on brain function, Nature Neuroscience 3(1) (2000), 91–96.
8. Vivian Cook, Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary: Or Why Can’t Anybody Spell? (New York: Touchstone, 2004), V.
9. Stephen Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (New York: Harper Perennial, 1994), 190
10. “How English adds the ‘-ed,’” Los Angeles Times, October 11, 2007.
11. Stephen Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (New York: Harper Perennial, 1994), 138.
CHAPTER 10: FIXERS
1. “Spelling mistake takes tourist 13,000km off course,” Register, January 1, 2007.
2. Stephen Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (New York: Harper Perennial, 1994), 150.
3. Herbert C. Morton, The Story of Webster’s Third (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 1, 7.
4. ed. Benjamin A. Stolz, I. R. Titunik, and Jind? rich Toman, Henry Ku era (Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1992), xvii.
5. Howard Webber, “A Brief Account of Spell Checking as Developed by Houghton Mifflin Company,” http://www.softwarehistory.org/pdf/X-SpellCheckHM.pdf
6. “Solo’s Errant Spell-Check Causes ‘Sea Sponge’ Invasion,” Recorder, March 2, 2006.
CHAPTER 11: THE RUBARB ON THE INTERNET
1. Robert Burchfield, The English Language (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1985), 147.
2. “From Googol to Google,” Stanford Daily, February 12, 2003.
3. Google Spokesperson Karen Wikre, personal correspondence, February 2008; Google Research Blog, http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/08/all-ourn-gram-are-belong-to-you.html
4. “Penny Lane Farm LLC,” http://www.pennylanefarmsauces.com/
5. Ken Auletta, “The Search Party,” New Yorker, January 14, 2008.
6. “Exam Chiefs Ridiculed for Allowing ‘Text Speak’ English Answers,” Daily Mail, November 1, 2006.
7. “Is txt Ruining the English Language?” BBC World Have Your Say, March 3, 2003.
8. “Ireland’s Text-Mad Youth Losing Writing Abilities,” USAToday.com, April, 2007. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007–04–25-ireland-spells-doom_N.htm.
9. John Humphrys, Introduction to James Cochrane, Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English (Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2005), xxi.
10. John Morse, personal interview, May 2007.
11. “Net Lingo,” http://www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm
12. “Merriam-Webster Online Open Dictionary,” http://www3.merriam-webster.com/opendictionary/newword_display_alpha.php?letter=Re&last=40
EPILOGUE
1. Robert Claiborne, Our Marvelous Native Tongue (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1987); Richler, A Bawdy Language (Toronto, Canada: Stoddard, 2001), 3.
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SEARCHABLE TERMS
Note: Entries in this index, carried over verbatim from the print edition of this title, are unlikely to correspond to the pagination of any given e-book reader. However, entries in this index, and other terms, may be easily located by using the search feature of your e-book reader.
AAVE. See African-American Vernacular English
L’Académie Française, 63–64
Adams, John, 92
Aelfric, 23–24, 53
Aeneid (Virgil), 38
African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), 69–70
A is for America (Lepore), 87, 90–91, 95
Alfred (king), 20–22, 31 alphabet, 21, 50, 76, 87, 102–4
An American Dictionary of the English Language (Webster), 5, 89–90, 92–94, 96–97, 96n
publication of, 95
American English. See also Dewey, Melvil
in cyberspace, 174, 182–85
texting, 178–81
Webster’s, 5, 13, 83–86
American Heritage, 163
American Heritage Dictionary (Houghton Mifflin), 163, 165
Anglo-Norman language, 27n
Anglo-Saxons, 14–16
apostrophe, 74
Archibald, Ralph, 135–36
Aristotle, 139
Bacon, Francis, 54
Bell, Masha, 128–30, 134, 135
Bell, Nanci, 153–54
Beniowski, Bartlomiej, 101–2
Bible, 26, 31, 34–35, 39, 43
Latin, 34n
Black Plague, 30, 34n, 72
Boardman, Peter, 125–26, 134
book titles, 76
Brewer, David J., 4
Burchfield, Robert, 172
Burgess, Anthony, 68–69
Bush, George W., 67
Butler, James Murray, 4
Caedmon’s Hymn, 15–16
Cambridge University, 34, 60
Campbell, Alan, 127–28
The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 31–33, 43–45, 51