How does spelling go awry? Here, four common ways. 1. Borrowing words from other languages. One way a language gets words with weird spellings is by borrowing them from another language that has a ...

His proposal, “A Reformed Mode of Spelling,” opens with an analysis of spoken English in the form of a table prioritizing the alphabet by sound and vocal effort.

Which is why this sound at the center of the English language has become known as the bane of all spelling bee contestants. a gain/en e my/pres i dent/freed o m/alb u m/s y ringe Th e Bee ...

The NATO alphabet is an international standard of communication. That doesn’t stop people from saying “N as in Nancy.” ...

Mr. Henry begins his smart, lighthearted chronicle of the simplified spelling movement by identifying the “heart of our problem”: that “English has 44 sounds but only 26 letters” and that ...

You're not imagining it: the alphabet song is changing. ... These skills allow students to develop a fundamental understanding of letters and the fact they make sounds and spell words.

Alphabet knowledge and the understanding of letter forms, ... the 'alphabetic principle,' which is understanding that those squiggles we call letters each have different names and spell sounds.

Another holdover from the Futhorc runic alphabet, wynn was adapted to the Latin alphabet because there wasn't a letter that quite fit the "w" sound that was common in English.

As Gabe Henry notes in “Enough Is Enuf,” a history of the largely futile efforts to overhaul English spelling, Webster wasn’t motivated by nationalism alone.

Have your kids come home singing their ABCs to a familiar tune - but one that somehow sounds just a bit off? You're not imagining it: the alphabet song is changing. The original song most of us ...