English Spelling explores the rules and conventions on which present-day English spelling is based.
This Language Workbook:
* Examines how speech-sounds map onto each other
* Explores the extent to which words sound identical or look identical
* Analyzes various kinds of spelling mistakes
* Looks at the main differences between American and British spelling
* Shows how and why the names of people and places may vary from expected spelling conventions
* Deals with the punctuation of words by apostrophes, hyphens and capitalisation
* Considers several possible approaches to spelling reform
- 99 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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English Spelling
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Topic
Personal DevelopmentSubtopic
Grammar & PunctuationTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Using this book
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Speaking and Writing
- 2 Finding Phonemes
- 3 Long and Short Vowel Pairs
- 4 Marking Vowel Length
- 5 Complications in Length Marking
- 6 Some Consonant Spellings
- 7 Some Vowel Spellings
- 8 Look-Alikes and Sound-Alikes
- 9 Sound-Alike Affixes
- 10 The Spelling of Names
- 11 Rules and Mistakes
- 12 More Than Letters
- 13 American and British Spelling
- 14 Spelling Reform
- Answers to Exercises
- Further Reading
- Index
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