I was just browsing through some of the titles in the new Humanities International Complete database (located here) when I came across what appears to be a publication titled Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary.  Now that's the kind of title you need to stop a browser dead in their tracks! 

It turns out that this is a full text electronic book (accessable right here, right now) that deals with the question "why can't anybody spell?"  I ask myself that everyday.  Why did I go through pre-school trying to obliterate all the vowels in my middle name?  Why did I sit at a spelling test in first grade for half an hour before I remembered "of" wasn't spelled with a "V"?  Why do I still sometimes have the obtuse desire to put an "E" in "only"?  The articles in this book surely contain the answer (or at least some good ancedotes such as the article WHALES WAIL IN WALES: English Homophones).

AMAZON REVIEW:

Weird or wierd? Necessary or neccessary? Recomend or recommend? English spelling is fiendish, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun with it.

Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary is at once a celebration of spelling and a solace to anyone who has ever struggled with the arcane rules of the English language. As amusing as he is informative, Vivian Cook thrills the reader with more than a hundred entries -- from photographs of hilariously misspelled signs to quizzes best taken in private to schadenfreude-rich examples of spelling errors of literary greats -- that will tickle the inner spelling geek in every reader.

It all adds up to a gem of a book that takes a wry look at the hodgepodge evolution of spelling and the eccentric way it actually works.