English spelling

Author(s)

• Carney, Edward

Bibliographic Information

English spelling

Edward Carney

（Language workbooks）

Routledge, 1997

• :pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-95) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

English Spelling explores the rules and conventions on which present-day English spelling is based. This Language Workbook: * Examines how speech-sounds map onto each other * Explores the extent to which words sound identical or look identical * Analyzes various kinds of spelling mistakes * Looks at the main differences between American and British spelling * Shows how and why the names of people and places may vary from expected spelling conventions * Deals with the punctuation of words by apostrophes, hyphens and capitalisation * Considers several possible approaches to spelling reform

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Speaking and Writing
• Chapter 2 Finding Phonemes
• Chapter 3 Long and Short Vowel Pairs
• Chapter 4 Marking Vowel Length
• Chapter 5 Complications in Length Marking
• Chapter 6 Some Consonant Spellings
• Chapter 7 Some Vowel Spellings
• Chapter 8 Look-Alikes and Sound-Alikes
• Chapter 9 Sound-Alike Affixes
• Chapter 10 The Spelling of Names
• Chapter 11 Rules and Mistakes
• Chapter 12 More Than Letters
• Chapter 13 American and British Spelling
• Chapter 14 Spelling Reform

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BA34713993
• ISBN:
  • 0415161096
• LCCN: 96047573
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: 99 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PE1143
  • DC21 : 428.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English language -- Orthography and spelling
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA2269991X