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Exposition Spells Out Fisher Story


Book ID
127350709
Publisher
American Chemical Society
Year
1960
Tongue
English
Weight
518 KB
Volume
38
Category
Article
ISSN
0009-2347

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Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to their foreign ears, and it stuck. Seventy-five per cen