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Author Venezky, Richard L.

Title The American way of spelling : the structure and origins of American English orthography / Richard L. Venezky.

Imprint New York : Guilford Press, c1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  421.54 V556a 1999    ---  Available
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.
Americanisms.
ISBN 1572304693 (alk. paper)

 
    
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