Summary
CHRIS Parton focuses mainly on the evolution of spelling through what he sees as "faddish rules", and thinks "it will be interesting to see whether free and easy, unedited, unproofed publishing on the internet will destabilise linguistic rules" (Letters, June 27). This is a prospect he appears to view with equanimity.
His expressed view seems, never theless, to blur the areas of spelling as simple orthographic correctness on the one hand and distinctions in the written language which have grammatical and semantic implications on the other.See the full content of this document
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