Spell It OutWhy 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 spelt it the way it sounded to their foreign ears, and it stuck. Seventy five per cent of English spelling is regular, but twenty five per cent is complicated, and in Spell It Out, our foremost linguistics expert David Crystal extends a