Dictionary Of The British English Spelling System
by Greg Brooks /
2015 / English / PDF
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This book will tell all you need to know about British English
spelling. It's a reference work intended for anyone interested in
the English language, especially those who teach it, whatever the
age or mother tongue of their students. It will be particularly
useful to those wishing to produce well-designed materials for
teaching initial literacy via phonics, for teaching English as a
foreign or second language, and for teacher training. English
spelling is notoriously complicated and difficult to learn; it is
correctly described as much less regular and predictable than any
other alphabetic orthography. However, there is more regularity in
the English spelling system than is generally appreciated. This
book provides, for the first time, a thorough account of the whole
complex system. It does so by describing how phonemes relate to
graphemes and vice versa. It enables searches for particular words,
so that one can easily find, not the meanings or pronunciations of
words, but the other words with which those with unusual
phoneme-grapheme/grapheme-phoneme correspondences keep company.
Other unique features of this book include teacher-friendly lists
of correspondences and various regularities not described by
previous authorities, for example the strong tendency for the
letter-name vowel phonemes (the names of the letters
This book will tell all you need to know about British English
spelling. It's a reference work intended for anyone interested in
the English language, especially those who teach it, whatever the
age or mother tongue of their students. It will be particularly
useful to those wishing to produce well-designed materials for
teaching initial literacy via phonics, for teaching English as a
foreign or second language, and for teacher training. English
spelling is notoriously complicated and difficult to learn; it is
correctly described as much less regular and predictable than any
other alphabetic orthography. However, there is more regularity in
the English spelling system than is generally appreciated. This
book provides, for the first time, a thorough account of the whole
complex system. It does so by describing how phonemes relate to
graphemes and vice versa. It enables searches for particular words,
so that one can easily find, not the meanings or pronunciations of
words, but the other words with which those with unusual
phoneme-grapheme/grapheme-phoneme correspondences keep company.
Other unique features of this book include teacher-friendly lists
of correspondences and various regularities not described by
previous authorities, for example the strong tendency for the
letter-name vowel phonemes (the names of the letters) to
be spelt with those single letters in non-final syllables.
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be spelt with those single letters in non-final syllables.