ENGLISH SPELLING ‘The ro tens on the icing pg epreen confi ing views about the opeling sytem, The fs i 4 ‘Viera saga wih sugges tar ter i 0 Bee pedi in English speling conventions that t unreasonable to think of them ae comprising 4 “ent wall, The linguist ingen of ht werk ‘300 impresine hates reprinted rein ise. ‘The econ ian ex fom the highly cee Dr Senet of cides ead, wich sugges that thee & ladced 2 highly preicable paling sen, with jst sll number of regula forms crusing a disurbance. Supports of each view would condemn the ther et aerate chaos “beorits phonic we ar so oversimplified a 0 be 0 guide fo the reais of riding, To order theo "i, poems ilo regular are no more an = ‘peng ak sbow, xrcsing ghouls ciation, tht eling us oching bout whats normal “Thetruth evidently somewberin beewen: But wemuttnoterpe:iourive ea defer forthe amount of iegulaity in Engl spling. IF we incde proper names of people and places, and rare Feveiga loan words as de he poem oposite the proponion ef erga will dma incre If'we ince lngihy techn terms Guat ‘ichlrnhen the peopeton wl dec most ofthe las are spel scoring quit repulse fale: Eves i we vei the quan to eeryay ‘vocabulary thew are config answers. There se=t {obelet than 500 words in English whose pling ‘thot epuar: bu seer of thm ze ong the ‘nos Fequency wed werd ince language: Beeause ‘hey are constant befie our je, Engh paling vs the impression of being more ineglar than ie realy ‘Thenson oresay Machdeons onto hon ofp Atond Wh ony 26 leu oid oe 40 fhoncnen dectelonof ero lone Psy ro song Engh i nvr n = Pome Teggin tates Anse ich semaeay ‘or tee es pre ond wold a Be ‘ula Engh mpl thiskndfconmetions igestl-morcary neha non Aig Lamon mage (42 ch lege peingvowel mint Thug twovonel eterna alr ara conn. tence monet, ronda ‘orishas owe ethene i eget inp th cence of rc bich can scree Inge timber of worse. 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RULE WeTH denaeveres Petite Bere escttenatore tom rie | ers SaecicSprmeenats ‘anger rtrataet ad “rarity sos. ere seen Saceaes Sa ereeyiars aati ieee ‘ini oinpoet a Wir THe PROBL Triewrscmnememaracne, [ome ime ep feorsiemtinirme Reedy || Se Eo i Seaioweytoprmaetetied || mac Nvemtey reed Sotto vrstewceses || Ete wen i oar Femtiangtcinten tag” || oe ee ee emteintetatin, || Giies Sey gee “aheimantepeacetce® || Set ong a screciemepeccene || owe oom ty Beettiremrecetorvenie || See, = ilnggecoe nceraes || Sm = = oowheneacen enter pl Setioimeteins terete Dents ssen atest [kcompancdoywnsctrdeg are ‘yous geoghrone ‘lleginee camera women. etal bewer ny ena Srotinesenras enone : | 4 i . i P a a |oauiapdon wagon ine pic nietcotiaend be ‘rugat wate mice cee “seca wena og aungetnntonn ere ipo st ned on incl rer ened anand mand Fhandand ford abvesediv, ormandsem aa Fo ay ams ou ‘ough Brough poi soph ah ta cehharteonndot yooreie ahh Chama ren)The sources of ivegulat The English spalling ster the eu fs process of development hat hasbeen going 0 for ove 1,000 Jets. The eompieions me encounter ody ar he orsequeneeso the major guise and socal evens trhch have eke place ve ths pred 1 The origin of the problem fein he ace by (Crt misono ute he 2-Leer alphabet forthe 35 oro phonemes of Old Engl che ence rmber depending om the diner and method of nals) The aon of four new symbols belped (pp. 16,258), but est prowed nec ous some lees (ich a ead to repent more can one sound, and to repreene spe soande by combina Ais of leet (cha ve= the alent of pean. ay) 1 Aller the Norman Conquest, French scribes into daced serra now selng conventions. A number of (Od Engl forms mee replced, sich a Fr ce (qui The serves reac by hin ach words a ‘mig and enough cby ch incre and by in ase They began o usec before e and Jin such ‘worl 5 ey adel Basie he lero wt wt ten in 3 very smiar way to sm and (p26), they tied wo ene the veding isk in some sequences oF se lets by epg With oe, oe, one, fan) ~shrey niatng asc of sping exceons ‘nce the matvation forthe change hed ped. By {he beginning of ce ih century Engh speling sess dominate of two grnems ~ Old English and Trench ‘Farber completions were caused by che intr Action of prting, Many ely piers cme Berm ‘he Contnen, ne brough the own sping nome ‘o Engand. Fora while, ine jusicaion (9.257) was en achieved by shoring or lenghening word ‘ater than by varying the wor pace. Varon i che fale oF word wa a common rei. A major beneficial eet of printing, however was to impose onder on the ciany ssmnaie epelings found in ‘manuscript. Subllation gradually emerged ae {Carol chok ofthe Landon sender ar pencng oct (p56), aad che nason of onet speling, aga © gow * Alcough sping cheer was mach more sable pronunciation was not Iisa piu ony tha, ‘Bo tame die x pining wat beg lode he ‘vel sounds of London ipesch were undergoing the peas change in thei history If pining ha come ear ater or he Gest Vowel Sie (p69) en tar ele the prea paling eye would be ‘sly more cele than it hes red ou wo be, As ie the paling of thousands of words now rele the pronunciation as thy wer in Chart time. Nam for example, hae am ¢ Because in Shu? tndecrcinngtr Serna seenecst ‘ADO. tourer eseingninsurgrgin sexe et arnreyacininksentinor ‘eoveeinand Anwar hou Susy eaaced tage crete Sioa anion sing te ae aes ben Unknowns Soria” oy wei SERS yeumtnms Crectatcleieshocherircrns relat SSeS Site emtenemme lear ao apr at euandemerea a ioeatincmy eres ee ‘emt nace ene Seen Teysmgaedor We resonbaing Sere sdge har er hoviymenrarned ei (Gnas rae Foyer acti adintors The Set ag sn Scenery reduasa conics tego pater teeter Monnaie tama pdaoher uy onus Bzeiounpctecnns nou splices Seow See Soa pelea (ate ator 180)| eI a se Middle English ie was pronounced wih an f:/ vo! ike thar of moder cal). Te change oe dang the 15th ceneary was ignored by he pines, And the sue nd of reasoning exis the many ‘len e- fe? of moe spain (uch a in we nd te), ners the leer cased fo be sounded afer the peat ing conventions had been elite ‘+ Anode Kind of complication entered the langage ‘ihen 1Gd-century scolam eed to indica some [Bing of ce history oF a word in ie speling (69. ‘The bin deb for campers added by people who Flee was important fr everyone to know tha the sword comes rom debi in Lai. Sly Das [ded to doub (rom dubitad 90 ri (rom rego at (fans eno) an 10 and ough to (ine Bom Lan ul whereas its O18 agli ‘ign Although ony some ofthe propos Became andar, the ones tha survived continue fo preset ‘poder canes wih problem (especially now chat {vacenes oF atin ogi iro longer igh valued. Other apecs of rationalizon alto had ined rel The sere by some reformers to ly up ‘Gespeling war oes elf bor alo need he fmber of regu forms the gh of wih and Hi, for example, was ended eo sch words as delight sad ‘eh lice 16th and ely 170 cena, «new ‘ve ofan words rived in Engh from sch an fnge a French, Lain Gc, Spanish, fain, and orc (1). They broughe wid them a host of len epelings, wich gently eomplted the lam ing of longer words, in parila. Examples indude aur, bagun ese ec epitome gant, ron dere, inigan d pron: Many he ime which are the burt ofthe Victorian speling tie (9.273) at lan words in which the foign {paling fa ben ened cron aighly modifi “The stsion connie to the present day, with Inada pera, square. bre, bq aj, and chon iy ton of se rod now in he langage which ve inerened the ine of the ck facing thse who want te maser English ‘paling “Theres ofl his isa system which san amalgam of seve tadions, nobly Anglo-Saro, French, td Clas Lan/ Grech: Hoye, hse rebut he ‘icf ure foci the Engh habit of bomowng ‘words and thir spel) ftom anyhere and erry ‘where (9125 Tis aid to be ae of dhe sens a Ube langage thas chs auch sage and ariel le ‘on; ba hie Boughe athe expente oF a near ingly dives graphology. % Aceasangerven petepeee ‘Thecareofslogansthespeling often aide Seater cena! 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