ABSTRACT
This book brings together contributions on many different aspects of the English writing system, not only the state of the art but also growth points for the future. The overall scope of the English writing system is vast; the 27 contributions here inevitably represent only a selection of the many aspects it encompasses. The book demonstrates the variety and heterogeneity of the English writing system, going from Old English to Twitter, from children’s acquisition of spelling to dialect spelling in Louisiana and from theoretical phonology to Dublin street signs. Consequently each chapter may cater for very different readers ranging from psychologists to linguists to teachers.
