17. Internet Links and References

Internet Links:

There are many sites on the Internet devoted to spelling reform.

The Simplified Spelling Society in England has a site at www.spellingsociety.org that is a good starting-point.

From here you can go to their Links Page, which gives you links to a lot more Internet sites.

One of the best is "Steve Bett's large collection of spelling links" - which can lead you to a variety of new spelling systems, and also to some historical articles on Spelling Reform - for example, work by Mark Twain, and George Bernard Shaw.

References (books etc.):

H. Alexander, “The Story of Our Language”, Anchor, 1969.
John Ayto, "Dictionary of Word Origins", Bloomsbury Publishing, 1990.
W. Barkley, "A Last Word", Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., 1961.
W. Barkley, "Bad Language", Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., 1945.
L Barnett, “History of the English Language”, Sphere Books, 1970.
Baugh & Cable, “A History of the English Language”, Routledge, 4th ed., 1993.
Noam Chomsky, "Language and Mind", Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972.
Michael Corballis, "The Lopsided Ape", Oxford University Press, 1991.
Francis Crick, "The Astonishing Hypothesis", Simon & Shuster, 1994.
David Crystal, "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language", Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Godfrey Dewey, "English Spelling - Roadblock to Reading", Teachers College Press, 1971.
G. Dewey, "Relative Frequency of English Spellings", Teachers College Press, 1970.
John Dowling, "The Initial Teaching Alphabet", Cassell, Sixth Edition, 1966.
Dolton Edwards, "Meihem in ce Klasrum", Astounding Science Fiction (magazine), 1946.
L. & R. Flavell, “Dictionary of Word Origins”, Kyle Cathie, 1995.
W. Francis, “The English Language”, W. W. Norton & Co. Inc., 1965.
M. Follich, "The Case for Spelling Reform", Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., 1965.
V. Frith, "Beneath the Surface of Developmental Dyslexia", in Patterson, Coltheart and Marshall (eds.), "Surface Dyslexia", Erlbaum, 1985.
Dr. W. Gassner, "Rational Spelling", Semantography Publishing Co., (Sydney), 1955.
Hinton, Plaut and Shallice, "Simulating Brain Damage", in Scientific American, October, 1993.
T.F. Hoad (ed.), “The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology”, Oxford University Press, 1986.
Doreen Kimura (ed.), "Speech and Language", Birklauser, 1989.
Harry Lindgren, "Spelling Reform, A New Approach", Alpha Books, 1969.
H. Lindgren (ed.), "Spelling Action" (magazine), publ. Spelling Action Society in Canberra, 1980-82.
K.R. Mackenzie, "Niu Spelling", (Sydney), 1979.
McCrum, Cran & MacNeil, “The Story of English”, Faber and Faber, revised 1992.
Madeleine Nash, "Fertile Minds", in Time Magazine, February 3, 1997.
J.D. O’Connor, “Phonetics”, Penguin, 1973.
Steven Pinker, "The Language Instinct", William Morrow & Co., 1994.
Simeon Potter, "Our Language", Penguin, revised 1966.
F.H. Pritchard, “Essentials of Modern English”, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1934.
W. Ripman & W. Archer, "New Spelling", Sir Isaac Piman & Sons Ltd, 6th Ed., 1948.
Sally Shaywitz, "Dyslexia", in Scientific American, November, 1996.
D.G. Scragg, "A History of English Spelling", Manchester University Press, 1974.
Christine Temple, "The Brain", Penguin, 1993.
C. Upward, "Cut Spelling", Simplified Spelling Society, 1992.
Axel Wijk, "Regularized English", Almquist & Wiksell, 1959.
R.E. Zachrisson, "Anglic", 1930.

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