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| | Simplified Spelling Society : Optimality of English spelling. |
 | | An algorithm was developed to determine the optimality of English spelling in terms of its morphophonemic, or rather, its morphographemic basis. | | | In order to quantify the morphographemic optimality of T.O., i.e., the degree to which word families retain the base spelling, a simple algorithm was applied to the derived and inflected forms of 100 bases. | | | The main reason for developing and applying an optimality algorithm is to quantify the degree to which T.O. retains the base spelling in word families. |
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http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j29/optimality.php
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| | Simplified Spelling Society : English spelling problems. |
| | They give, for example, the 7 most usual ways of spelling the EE-sound, with a few examples of each, but without a comprehensive list of words which have to be learned. | | | I see the main priority as one of reducing the great number of words with irregular spellings by means of as few proposals for change as possible (or as few instructions as possible). | | | The highest single category of errors committed by students in examinations or spelling tests is caused by uncertainty about consonant doubling, either omitting them or inserting them where none is required. |
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http://www.spellingsociety.org/news/pvs/pv13bell.php
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| | Ockham’s Razor and English spelling |
| | English has to be learnt as two languages - the spoken and the written; you cant learn one from the other. | | | Yet psycologists and psycolinguists are well placed to take up reserch in human engineering, to investigate how spelling could be made a better match to the differing needs and abilities of users and lerners worldwide, and how it could still be backwards compatible with our heritage of print, so nothing was lost. | | | We have the electronic tecnology to permit change, and the Internet is an inexpensive place for experiments and evaluations. |
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http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/spockham.htm
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| | Fanetik: Thoroughgoing Spelling Reform for English, At Least for Teaching |
| | Unfortunately, the spelling of English is preposterous, and makes the task of learning to read and write it very hard, not just for people born into other language communities, but even for people born into English-speaking countries. | | | The grammar of English is simpler than that of almost any other natural language. | | | (On standard English computer keyboards, the apostrophe would suffice for the acute accent. |
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http://members.aol.com/Fanetiks
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| | About English - Spelling strategies |
| | There are many words where the origin of the word provides valuable information about the spelling. | | | For example, emphasising the 'n' sound in the word 'government' would mean that you would be less likely to leave the 'n' out. | | | It is not just important to teach knowledge about words but to include teaching of strategies of how to learn words. |
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http://www.education.tas.gov.au/english/spellstrat.htm
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| | Hou tu pranownse Inglish |
| | English has more phonemes than the alphabet has available symbols; the usual expedient of the orthography for solving this problem is to use digraphs. | | | The fact that a velar occurs in many of the rule conditions suggests that it was originally an allophonic variant of /ô/ and /â/ in this environment-- compare | | | Parenthesized characters represent the environment where you can use a spelling. |
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http://www.zompist.com/spell.html
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| | OWL: Handouts: Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling |
| | Visit our printer-friendly grammar, spelling, and punctuation index to download and print any of these handouts, or click on the link on any of the handouts to visit the printer-friendly version. | | | We also have PowerPoint presentations related to grammar, and we have an entire section of handouts and resources for English as a Second Language learners that might also prove useful. | | | In this section of our site, we offer you handouts and exercises on grammar, spelling, and punctuation. |
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http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar
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| | The Petersonian English Spelling System |
| | Probably the main motivation behind reforming the English spelling system is to help children learn to read faster. | | | The problem with English is that, unlike Chinese, it pretends that its writing system is phonemic. | | | Unlike putting your napkin in your lap, though, spelling a word in a way that's not reminiscent of the way the word sounds has no inherent value whatsoever. |
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http://dedalvs.free.fr/petersonian.html
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| | English Plus+--English Grammar, Spelling, SAT, ACT, GRE, & More |
| | A complete grammar and spelling resource integrated with a grammar and spelling checker. | | | Before spending more time or money, read our analysis on what grammar programs can and cannot do. | | | That program is made by Emme Interactive of France. |
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http://englishplus.com
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| | SPELLING DEAREST: A history of English spelling + US Spelling history - SUPPORTING INFORMATION |
| | Within the book's introduction and threaded throughout the history, however, are fundamental complaints about our modern-day English-spelling system: e.g., it is the worst alphabetic spelling system in the world, it is enormously and needlessly complex, it not only creates poor spellers but poor readers as well. | | | In addition — for the ecology-minded — simplified spelling has resulted in a huge reduction in the number of murdered trees. | | | Once that is achieved, they have to convince all the English-speaking governments to implement it simultaneously. |
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http://www.spellingdearest.com/wst_page10.html
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| | Simplified Spelling Society : The Simplified Spelling Society. |
| | The updating of English spelling would be of benefit to many more than just the Anglo-Saxon world, but also the world of TEFL where other languages are spoken in addition to English. | | | Learning a phonetic system is easier and allows the children of today to be more productive than we could ever be, releasing them to learn other essential skills in a fast moving world. | | | Like all languages with phonetic writing systems a reform would do away with those wasteful spelling classes for children learning English. |
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http://www.spellingsociety.org
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| | yourDictionary.com • 100 Most Often Misspelled Words |
| | Hopefully, you won't have to allot a lot of time to this problem. | | | Just remember to accept any table offered to you and you will spell this word OK. | | | The i-before-e rule works here, so what is the problem? |
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http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/misspelled.html
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| | Spellzone |
| | A computer spell check will help you some of the time - but not always! | | | To view Spellzone we suggest you upgrade your browser to a newer version. | | | For a complete list of the Program contents, click here. |
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http://www.spellzone.com
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| | (American) English Spelling |
| | Spell check the document if it is electronic | | | Pay attention to words you commonly misspell or that are spelled correctly but misused | | | English spelling rules are complex, with many exceptions. |
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http://www.studygs.net/spelling.htm
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| | English spelling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In attempts to differentiate their products from others, they introduce new or simplified spellings like "lite" instead of "light", "thru" instead of "through", "smokey" instead of "smoky" (for "smokey bacon" flavour crisps), and "rucsac" instead of "rucksack". | | | The English spelling system is one of the most irregular spelling systems in current use. | | | This is also the case with several abugida alphabets, such as Devanagari, used to write many languages of North India. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_orthography
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| | British English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As a result there is significant variation in grammar, usage, spelling, and vocabulary within English as used in the UK, and lively, idiomatic uses of the language are commonplace. | | | In addition, vocabulary and usage change with time; words are freely borrowed from other languages and other strains of English, and neologisms are frequent. | | | As with many other aspects of British culture, the English language as spoken in the United Kingdom and Ireland is governed by convention rather than formal code: there is no equivalent body to the Académie française, and the authoritative dictionaries (e.g. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English
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| | English - Spelling |
| | Children will learn this process and practise it until they indicate that they understand the steps. | | | This means that all students in the school will learn spelling in the same way, subject to their stage of development. | | | This approach has as its focus teaching spelling appropriate to each child's level of development. |
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http://www.windarooss.qld.edu.au/Main_Pages/spelling_nf.html
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| | Spelling |
| | Although each has exceptions, if you study these rules carefully, you will be able to avoid most common errors, even without a spell-checker. | | | For example, they tend to miss homonyms -- words which are pronounced the same way but spelled differently, such as site/ sight, there/ their/ they're, and its/ it's. | | | Choose one or the other pattern, and follow it closely. |
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http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/spelling.html
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| | Proofing Tools Office '97 - Comprehensive Spelling (1 left), English, Dictionary, Software - Windows, Spell Checking, ... |
| | A Windows-compatible computer equipped with one or more of the following Office 97 applications: Word 97, Outlook 97, or Microsoft Excel 97. | | | Proofing Tools Office '97 - Comprehensive Spelling (1 left), English, Dictionary, Software - Windows, Spell Checking, Windows 95/98, Windows NT view this site in | | | Turn your basic spell checker into a legal word expert with Spellex Legal 7.0, the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and accurate legal spelling checker ever developed. |
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http://www.worldlanguage.com/Products/320.htm
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| | Reading from Scratch - Spelling Rules |
| | As usual, the spelling problems occur with the vowels: | | | This is because the letter j, is never doubled in English. | | | No compendium of spelling rules would be complete with the most important rule of all: |
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http://www.dyslexia.org/spelling_rules.shtml
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| | Dictionary.com |
| | Save up to 40% on great reference books and software | | | -Student Won $1,000 by Correctly Spelling "Psalm" and "Theocracy" |
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http://dictionary.reference.com
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| | Merriam-Webster Online |
| | Look up words instantly while browsing anywhere on the Web with our free | | | We’ve given our Spelling Bee Hive a honey of a makeover for the occasion, and added some great new features—so come on in and visit for a spell! | | | Start improving your English skills today at LearnersDictionary.com, and sign up for a free daily e-mail! |
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http://www.m-w.com
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| | Musical Spelling Rules |
| | As players move around the game board they determine which word is misspelled, and score points when they identify those words. | | | As players move around the gameboard they determine which word is misspelled. | | | This self-correcting spelling game contains over 600 words that have been carefully selected from current spelling lists. |
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http://www.gardenofpraise.com/spell1.htm
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| | Common Errors in English |
| | Read about the book version of this site. | | | Listen to Paul Brians' interview on the Voice of America Wordmaster program. | | | English as a Second Language Help Desk at Washington State University |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
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| | Chapter 8. American Spelling. 1. The Two Orthographies. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language |
| | According to a recent writer upon the subject, “there are 812 words in which the prevailing American spelling differs from the English.” 3 But enough examples are given here to reveal a number of definite tendencies. | | | The substitution of i for e in such words as indorse, inclose and jimmy is of less patent utility, but even here there is probably a slight gain in euphony. | | | Of more obscure origin is what seems to be a tendency to avoid the o-sound, so that the English slog becomes slug, podgy becomes pudgy, slosh becomes slush, toffee becomes taffy, and so on. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/185/31.html
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| | The Problem with English Spelling |
| | Over the years, there have been many critics of the current spelling system (the use of system here being a clear oxymoron). | | | The largest number of borrowed words come from Latin, a language which is quite different in its grammar and somewhat so in its sounds. | | | The three best known proposals are all accessible in the ConScript Unicode Registry associated with the "Unicode" encoding method (see the official Unicode site for more information on this). |
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http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa735/eng_sp.html
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| | On English Spelling: Does GHOTI really spell fish? — Nels Tomlinson |
| | Yes, every rule has exceptions, but they are usually few in number, relative to the number of words which follow the rule. | | | The reason I call it a mistake is that ghoti==fish violates several rules of English orthography. | | | Unfortunately for the ``ghoti spells fish'' theory, gh==f works at the end of a word, but never |
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http://www.geocities.com/nelstomlinson/english.spelling.html
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| | English Simplified Spelling |
| | A simplified spelling system for the English language should be clear and consistent, and yet retain some degree of familiarity, especially in regards to the roots of words and cognates in other languages, to allow us to read books and manuscripts using traditional spelling with relative ease. | | | Scandinavian keyboards are useful: The accent is found where the equal sign is on English keyboards. | | | X should never be used for final k or g followed by the plural or other s or z suffixes. |
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http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/ess.html
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| | Néytoe ínglish/Neato English |
| | My attempt at reforming the English written language. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/wa/derludwig/ingglic.html
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| | Free Spelling Course |
| | In the event that you do not have your own dictionary at home, online dictionary help is available here: http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm | | | For each error, write out the correct spelling five times | | | For each misspelled word, write the correct spelling out three times |
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http://www.splashesfromtheriver.com/spelling/courseoutline.htm
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| | Spelling Test |
| | The spellings considered correct are American spellings (because I'm an American). | | | You can take the test (below) and see how you did right away. | | | There are some spelling tips on another page. |
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http://www.sentex.net/~mmcadams/spelling.html
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| | English Spelling - Edward Carney - Microsoft Reader eBook |
| | English Spelling explores the rules and conventions on which present-day English spelling is based. | | | * Considers several possible approaches to spelling reform | | | English Spelling - Edward Carney - Microsoft Reader eBook |
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http://www.ebookmall.com/ebook/70348-ebook.htm
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| | CUCUMBER (Cucumis sati... - Online Information article about CUCUMBER (Cucumis sati... |
| | Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. | | | England up to the beginning of the 18th See also: | | | HOOKER, SIR JOSEPH DALTON (1817— English botanist and traveller, second son of the famous botanist Sir W.J.Hooker, was born on the 3oth of June 1817, at Halesworth, Suffolk. |
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http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/CRE_DAH/CUCUMBER_Cucumis_sativus_Fr_con.html
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