Customer Reviews

THEY CAN'T SPELL, THEY WON'T SPELL - By: "Brigantia44", 04 Oct 2008
Do NOT buy this book.

This is meant to be the erudite textbook for an Open University course. Unfortunately, this book makes it impossible to read & concentrate on key concepts, when for some mystifying reason the publishers have chosen to use 'Americanese cod-spelling', instead of the correct printed form of Queen's English we use herein the UK.

This is extremely off-putting & should NOT be deployedin a UK textbook by UK academics writing for UK studentsin the UK. It may be an increasing, unwelcome & disgraceful trendin British universities - & if so, it is a 'trend' that should certainly be thoroughly resisted! No doubt some people will,in Orwellian fashion, deliberately misconstrue what I am saying as racist. However, they miss the point by a mile.

Now, I may have made an unwitting 'typo' or syntax error here, everyone does now & then - but the format of this book is something else. This book is an insidious, & damaging, 'dumbing down' of the worst kind. An assault on correct English & an assault on the reader. The point is that,in the UK, plough is spelt just like that - p.l.o.u.g.h. - & centre is spelt c.e.n.t.r.e. - & artefact is spelt with an 'e' - an E! - not an 'i'.

It is time that publishers woke up to the realisation - not -zation! - that the English language is NOT to be deliberately vandalisedin this way, & the beauty & integrity of English usage herein this country, formulated over centuries, should not be compromised.

** Particularlyin works of 'academic' literature! **
So, author & publisher, Shame On You!

Amazon customers: await the revised publication of this work with spelling corrected - or, meanwhile, if you do actually care about contributing to maintain good standardsin our culture, language & heritage, then start by buying something else.