EARLY MODERN PRINTERS AND THE STANDARDIZATION OF ENGLISH SPELLING.
The article focuses on the mechanism and the evolution of the standardization of English spelling in the context of early modern printers. Compositors brought with them to the printing house their traditional spellings that reflected their regional origins. The question of why these spellings change...
| Publicado en: | Modern Language Review Vol. 101; no. 1; pp. 16 - 30 |
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