What does your spelling say about you behind your back?

Vos Savant has written a comprehensive book about spelling and offers an excellent bibliography of books covering spelling. I would recommend this book for spellers at all levels. Parents could even use her recommendations to help their children become better spellers.

She also lists several web sites, some of which I have previously listed in other articles or on my links page, but I will include them all here for your convenience.

The book:

The Art of Spelling: The Madness and the Method
Marilyn vos Savant
W.W. Norton & Company
New York, NY 10110
www.wwnorton.com
2000
ISBN 0-393-04903-5

The web sites

Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee
http://www.spellingbee.com

Simplified Spelling Society
http://www.les.aston.ac.uk/sss/

Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature (SPELL)
http://www.mindspring.com/~spellorg/

American Dialect Society
http://www.americandialect.org

Dictionary Society of North America
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dsna/

American Name Society
http://www.wtsn.binghamton.edu/ANS/

Modern Language Association
http://www.mla.org

Linguistic Society of America
http://lsadc.org

American Literacy Council
http://www.under.org/alc/

National Council of Teachers of English
http://www.ncte.org

Spelling Doctor
http://www.spellingdoctor.com

You can also read more about spelling bees in a previously published article in this topic, A Literate Insect.

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