"A Question of Spelling" The Roving Mind
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Prometheus Books
- Volume / pages
- page 340
- Retrieved
- Nov 30, 2008
- ISBN
- 9781573921
- EAN
- 9781573921817
2 memes from this reference
13 Percent of the English Language is Not Spelled Phonetically
I received a letter today from the "Reading Reform Foundation," which tells me that "23 million (American) adults are functionally illiterate, unable to read an advertisement, a job application, directions on a medicine bottle." They say "30 percent of all schoolchildren have serious reading difficulties." I rather…
Examples of Phonetic Spelling Failures in English
With spelling erratic, many English words become ideograms that must be learned as a whole, with its parts giving no clue or, worse yet, false clues. If you don't know in advance and just judge by the letters, can you know that "through," "coo," "do," "true," "knew," and "queue" all rhyme? If you don't know in advance…