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Book cover for Larry Beason: Eyes Before Ease

Eyes Before Ease : The Unsolved Mysteries and Secret Histories of Spelling

Larry Beason
Hardcover - $32.95

To err is human, but to spell correctly is better

In the age of automatic spell-checking, abbreviated text messaging, and on-the-fly Internet chatting is spelling still important? In this spirited and compelling book, award-winning English professo ...

Book cover for Edward Carney: English Spelling

English Spelling

Edward Carney
Paperback - $60.95

This practical workbook introduces beginners to the rules and conventions on which contemporary English spelling is based. Clearly written and organized, it is a perfect guide for self study.
Topics covered include: how speech-sounds map onto ea ...

Book cover for D. W. Cummings: American English Spelling

American English Spelling : An Informal Description

D. W. Cummings
Paperback - $67.95

In this study of the English language as it is spelled in America, D. W. Cummings demonstrates that behind the apparent disorder of spelling in American English lies a self-regulating and self-reorganizing system that is responsive to four kinds of i ...

Book cover for Francis Griffith: Barron's Pocket Guide to Correct Spelling

Barron's Pocket Guide to Correct Spelling

Francis Griffith
Paperback - $14.95

back cover
BARRON'S
POCKET GUIDE
TO
CORRECT SPELLING
Fourth Edition
Greatly expanded and updated, this alphabetically arranged guide to 24,000 often misspelled words includes easy-to-remember spelling rules, memory devic ...

Book cover for Houghton Mifflin Company: Spell Check

Spell Check : Based on the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Houghton Mifflin Company
Hardcover - $12.95

Spell Check lists the correct spellings and syllabications of the working
vocabulary of Standard English. The book includes a variety of challenging
words in fields ranging from science and technology (amyloid, blogosphere) to
contemporary c ...

Book cover for Judi Kesselman-Turkel: Spelling Simplified

Spelling Simplified

Judi Kesselman-Turkel
Paperback - $13.95

THE STUDY SMART SERIES, designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programs, teaches skills for research and note-taking, provides exercises to improve grammar, and reveals secrets for putting these skills together in gre ...

Book cover for James J. Magee: Mispelled or Misspelled?

Mispelled or Misspelled?

James J. Magee
Paperback - $25.95



Book cover for Robert Magnan: 1001 Commonly Misspelled Words

1001 Commonly Misspelled Words : What Your Spell Checker Won't Tell You

Robert Magnan
Paperback - $22.95

English can be a language full of spellings that look right but are dead wrong. Toss in those infuriating sound-alikes (they're/their/there, its/it's, except/accept), which computer spell checkers usually don't catch, and it's no wonder that 99% of u ...

Book cover for Robert J. Masters: Random House Webster's Pocket Bad Speller's Dictionary

Random House Webster's Pocket Bad Speller's Dictionary : Second Edition

Robert J. Masters
Paperback - $9.95

Q: " How do I find a word in the dictionary if I don't know how to spell it?
A: "Look it up by its wrong spelling.
Random House Webster's has compiled the first dictionary for bad spellers -- now in a handy pocketsize version.
The vast new ...

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