The Penguin Writers' Writers' Guides series provides authoritative, succinct and easy-to-follow guidance on specific aspects of written English. Whether you need to brush up your skills or get to grips with something for the first time, these invaluable Guides will help you find the best way to get your message across clearly and effectively.
If you ever feel that your spelling lets you down, this practical and easy-to-use book offers expert advice on how to get it spot on every time. It explains the basic principles and rules, and guides you throught the traps and snares, from words that sound the same but are spelt differently to problematic foreign words. With its helpful hints and lists of common errors, this is the essential route to accurate, confident spelling.
1. How to improve your spelling
2. 1066 and other bits of history
3. Frequently misspelt words
4. One word or two?
5. Words that are often confused
6. Spelling problems and spelling rules: Vowels
7. Spelling problems and spelling rules: consonants
8. Spelling problems and speling rules: word-dndings
9. Comon word-forming elements
10. Silent letters
etc.