Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary: Or Why Can’t Anybody Spell?

This delightful, quick-footed book celebrates the English language by exploring the rich treasure house of spelling in all its variety – setting tests and proposing rules, with illuminating quotations and tantalising lists Headrillaz and Misteeq; Naming Pop Groups; miniscule parallels; non-letters; the three-letter rule; Faeder ure pup e eart on heofunum; UK number plates; HipHop spelling; East Anglian place-names; the E-cancellation spelling test – these are just some of the intriguing subjects presented in this must-have, must-give little book.