In October of 1985, I was privileged to attend a most stimulating conference at Queen's
University in Ontario held by the Strathy Language Unit, which had been recently endowed" …

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Spelling is an area where the varieties of English beg to differ. Whereas British and
American English have long been considered as having stable and juxtaposed spelling …

In recent years the variety of spoken dialects in English has become a subject for study and
appreciation, replacing the former scorn and depreciation for" non-standard English."(Shuy …

The students of the science of language, the filologists, hav been for twenty years the most
efficient promoters of the rational reform of spelling. The American Philological Association …

For a hundred years and more, a variety of movements and individuals have sought to
revise the spelling of English, in the direction of system, a phonetic or phonemic relationship …

By DG Scragg This book provides an outline history of English spelling from the Anglo-
Saxons' adoption of the Roman alphabet to the present day. It shows the respective …

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 …

Concern about English spelling is not new. Scholars, teachers, politicians and writers-from
Benjamin Franklin to Bernard Shaw-made repeated attempts to regain for English at least …

The Hebrew script is essentially consonantal, that is, the basic transliterated values of its
twenty-two characters are:'(glottal stop), b, g, d, h, v, z, h,{, y, k, l, m, n, s, c (pharyngal), p, tz …