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“The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.”

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David Crystal
David Crystal

David Crystal is a distinguished British linguist, author, and broadcaster, born on July 6, 1941. He has made substantial contributions to linguistics through his extensive research and publications. Crystal has authored more than 100 books on language, grammar, and phonetics, and has presented numerous television and radio programs on these topics. more

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