Monthly Archives: June 2024

On Late Modern English spelling: an appendix to Marco Condorelli, Introducing Historical Orthography (2022)

The book is a plea for paying more attention in linguistics curricula to historical orthography, and I couldn’t agree more. The book is well written, and in my view very accessible. Focusing on spelling systems worldwide, it also deals with … Continue reading

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Jane Austen’s Will – and what it led to

Not about her letters this time, sorry about that! But her original Will was published among her letters in Deirdre Le Faye’s important edition of her correspondence, so there is a little bit of a link here. My second article … Continue reading

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