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Title |
The American way of spelling : the structure and origins of American English orthography / Richard L. Venezky. |
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Imprint |
New York : Guilford Press, c1999. |
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Description |
xv, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-261) and indexes. |
Contents |
Overview -- A celebration of variation -- Creative spellings -- The sound system -- The writing system -- Origins and evolutions -- Discovering regularity -- Consonant patterns -- Vowel patterns -- Morphophonemics -- Spelling reform -- Teaching phonics. |
Subject |
English language -- Orthography and spelling.
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Americanisms.
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ISBN |
1572304693 (alk. paper) |
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