I bought this book months ago and nibbled away at it. It was all very interesting though I think I've retained no particulars. Nice to understand though how some of our weird English spellings have come about and why changing them wouldn't be in any way easy — Why Q Needs U: A history of our letters and how we use them by Danny Bate. 📚
Why does 'W' sounds like 'double U'?
What has the letter 'Q' got to do with monkeys?
Why are the 'C's in circus pronounced differently?
What's the point of the second 'N' in the author's first name, 'Danny'?
And why does 'Q' need to be followed by 'U'?
