Episode 114: The ABC’s of Spelling

We’re wading into the messy world of English spelling in this episode — the first of two, since we couldn’t fit all of the ‘quirks’ of the language into one episode. The history of orthography in English is all tangled up with the history of the alphabet, so in this part we trace some of the twists and turns that resulted in our modern script. The ABC CocktailOur video on “Spelling”Christopher Upward & George Davidson, The History of English Spelling (2001)David Sacks, Letter Perfect (2003)Kevin Stroud, The History of the Alphabet (audiobook)NativLang “Thoth’s Pill - an Animated History of Writing”Transcript of this episodeThis episode on YouTubeOur Patreon pageRedbubble storeThis podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International LicenseThe Endless Knot RSS