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Spellbound

James Essinger is an Oxford graduate who has published more than thirty books. He is particularly interested in the history of ideas that have had a practical impact on the modern world. His previous writings and his time spent teaching English abroad leave him exceptionally well qualified in the linguistic field.

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Title of ebook: Spellbound
ISBN: 9780440336938
Publisher: Dell Publishing
Internet download file size: 291 kb
Released online for download: 05-01-2007
Author of eBook: Essinger, James

Spellbound

The Surprising Origins and Astonishing Secrets of English Spelling
Chapter 1

Method in the Madness?

"What's your name, sir?" enquired the judge.
"Sam Weller, my lord," replied that gentleman.
"Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?" enquired the judge.
"That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my lord," replied Sam.
–Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (1837)

FIFTY years ago, an ex-schoolmaster called Geoffrey Willans sat down to write a book about a schoolboy. In fact, Willans went one better than that, and decided to make it seem as if the book were written by his schoolboy, Nigel Molesworth.

Nigel is one of English literature's great comic creations. He entices us to luxuriate in his anarchic, outrageous, yet curiously innocent world. From the moment he bursts into existence on the title page of Down With Skool!–the first of the four Molesworth books–Nigel reveals himself to be a keen observer of the foibles and cruelties of humanity.

The school he attends–St. Custard's–is run by a ghoulish headmaster, Mr. ... read full excerpt from Spellbound ebook