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2. English orthography - Wikipedia

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   English orthography does not always provide an underlying representation; sometimes it provides an intermediate representation between the underlying form and the surface pronunciation. This is the case with the spelling of the regular plural morpheme, which is written as either - s (as in tat, tats and hat, hats ) or - es (as in glass, glasses ).

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 ...

4. Spelling - Wikipedia

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   Therefore, normative spelling is a relatively recent development linked to the compiling of dictionaries (in many languages, special spelling dictionaries, also called orthographic dictionaries, are compiled, showing prescribed spelling of words but not their meanings), the founding of national academies and other institutions of language ...

5. John Hart (spelling reformer) - Wikipedia

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   John Hart (died 1574) was an English educator, grammarian, spelling reformer and officer of arms. [1] He is best known for proposing a reformed spelling system for English, which has been described as "the first truly phonological scheme" in the history of early English spelling. [2]

6. English-language spelling reform - Wikipedia

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   English Grammar in 1634 by Charles Butler, vicar of Wootton St Lawrence. [7]: 17–18 These proposals generally did not attract serious consideration because they were too radical or were based on an insufficient understanding of the phonology of English. [7]: 18 However, more conservative proposals were more successful.

7. American and British English spelling differences - Wikipedia

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   For licence/license or practice/practise, British English also keeps the noun–verb distinction graphically (although phonetically the two words in each pair are homophones with - /s/ pronunciation). On the other hand, American English uses license and practice for both nouns and verbs (with - /s/ pronunciation in both cases too).