By Edward Carney
English Spelling explores the principles and conventions on which present-day English spelling is based.This Language Workbook:* Examines how speech-sounds map onto one another* Explores the level to which phrases sound exact or glance exact* Analyzes several types of spelling blunders* appears on the major variations among American and British spelling* indicates how and why the names of individuals and areas may possibly range from anticipated spelling conventions* bargains with the punctuation of phrases via apostrophes, hyphens and capitalisation* Considers numerous attainable ways to spelling reform
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Usually the meaning is apparent from the context. Homographs and homophones can safely exist because both spoken and written language have a high level of redundancy: there are more than enough clues to the meaning. 1 Distinguish two different grammatical structures that occur with each of the following groups of words written as homographs: (a) aged, blessed, crooked, cursed, dogged, learned; (b) analyses, axes, bases, ellipses; (c) abuse, close, diffuse, excuse, house, use. < previous page page_33 next page > < previous page page_34 next page > Page 34 Discussion Classification of homographs and homophones may seem trivial to a literate native speaker, but put yourself in the position of a foreign learner or someone learning to read and write.
Discussion The results of such an enquiry are fairly predictable. You will probably be offered: 1 ‘ before ’, referring to orgy, orgies, deny, denies . Reference rules These can be called REFERENCE RULES, since they are memorable and you have them to refer to when you are hesitant about a particular spelling. The more closely one looks at rule (1), the more peculiar it seems. It helps to decide between in believe, etc.
The wider the page or column, the less need there will be for word division, so the best place to < previous page page_55 next page > < previous page page_56 next page > Page 56 study this practice under pressure is in text with a narrow-column layout, as in newspapers. 2 Suppose you were printing a text and your line of type could not take a whole word at the end. Where would you split the word in the following cases? accepted athlete baker bundle danger defensive dictation eventually festive frisky knickers lastly latest laundry mangey newspaper notable planting problem product quarter rational saleable shredded singeing solid spaghetti stadium veteran whitish Discussion You will aim to leave at the end of the line part of a word that is pronounceable as one or more syllables, hence the guidelines followed by typesetters are sometimes called ‘syllabification’ rules.