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  2. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    The spelling indicates the insertion of /ᵻ/ before the /z/ in the spelling - es , but does not indicate the devoiced /s/ distinctly from the unaffected /z/ in the spelling - s . The abstract representation of words as indicated by the orthography can be considered advantageous since it makes etymological relationships more apparent to English ...

  3. Orthography - Wikipedia

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    An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, punctuation, word boundaries, capitalization, hyphenation, and emphasis.. Most national and international languages have an established writing system that has undergone substantial standardization, thus exhibiting less dialect variation than the spoken language.

  4. American and British English spelling differences - Wikipedia

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    The spelling hearken was probably influenced by hear. [159] Both spellings are found everywhere. idyll: idyl: Idyl is the spelling of the word preferred in the US by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, for the same reason as the double consonant rule; idyll, the original form from Greek eidullion, is also used. jail, gaol: jail

  5. Phonics - Wikipedia

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    Short vowel+consonant patterns involve the spelling of the sounds / k / as in peek, / dʒ / as in stage, and / tʃ / as in speech. These sounds each have two possible spellings at the end of a word, ck and k for / k / , dge and ge for / dʒ / , and tch and ch for / tʃ / .

  6. Spelling - Wikipedia

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    Spelling is a set of conventions for written language regarding how graphemes should correspond to the sounds of spoken language. [1] Spelling is one of the elements of orthography, and highly standardized spelling is a prescriptive element. Spellings originated as transcriptions of the sounds of speech according to the alphabetic principle.

  7. Heteronym (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A heteronym is a homograph that is not a homophone, a word that has a different pronunciation and meaning from another word with the same spelling.Heteronym pronunciation may vary in vowel realisation, in stress pattern, or in other ways.

  8. Alphabetic principle - Wikipedia

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    The spelling systems for some languages, such as Spanish or Italian, are relatively simple because they adhere closely to the ideal one-to-one correspondence between sounds and the letter patterns that represent them. In English the spelling system is more complex and varies considerably in the degree to which it follows uniform patterns. There ...

  9. Word sort - Wikipedia

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    Once the appropriate spelling instructional level is established - be it alphabetic, within-word pattern, or syllable juncture - instruction can be adapted by focusing on fewer words at a time, teaching spelling patterns in an explicit manner, and providing for copious amounts of practice and review.