English Spelling

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

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;