Spoken English is ideal but written English has the world's worst spelling. Now Professor Coleman, a long-time expert, presents Clearspell, with ten great reform benefits making the spoken and written forms agree logically, clearly and concisely. Clearspell is unambiguous. A Clearspell word sounds exactly as the spelling indicates - unlike a vast number of words with the usual spelling. English spelling is famously hard to learn. For foreign students Clearspell is a real boon. But it is a spelling system in its own right. Read this book and see how much easier it could all be.

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Excerpt from Apropos of Spelling Reform The making of the table has involved far more labor than I antici pated, and the results which flow from it are discouragingl'y indefinite. Of course, the table as it stands is not really based upon any phonetic principle, but rather illustrates the various effects and the state of usage (so far as shown by the dictionaries in question) in respect to the spelling of the words in one form or the other. The principle of simplifying our spelling, and remotely of phonetic spelling, is, however, involved in it, but I should like to have presented the words grouped according to a phonetic analysis, which lack of time prevents me from doing. It is to be hoped that should such a table prove suggestive and helpful others of similar and fuller detail, better conceived and better executed, on phonetic principles, will be at hand for the use of those who shall be instrumental in the solution of our spelling problem. There is one im provement, however, that scholars might accomplish without the aid of such tables. By the exercise of an amount of sweet reasonableness and mutual concession a common and uniform system of transliteration might be established; and this ought to be done. The preparation of the table was in brief this: I ran hastily through Webster's International Dictionary and listed the terms belonging to any of the three classes. Those words, such as equal, sphere, economies, etc., that are settled in their spelling in the e form or the i form, so that there is now ordinarily no consciousness of the existence of two forms, were intentionally omitted from the list; a few others were doubtless overlooked that otherwise would have been included; a few have been listed that are practically settled in the e or i spelling for the sake of an example or two. However, neither the omission of the one nor the inclusion of the other is considerable enough to take away from the utility of the table as presenting the variations and tendencies of spell ings in the classes of words involved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The case for adopting a simplified spelling system for the English language.

The new revised edition of Lidia Stanton's bestselling book of mnemonics demystifying over 200 of the most difficult spellings. The book is structured around confusing pairs of words, such as homophones or words that 'go together', tricky everyday words and tricky academic words, with memorable illustrations on every page to help you connect the word's meaning and graphical features with how it's spelt. This is not a traditional spelling book, but a resource that will really get you thinking, and laughing out loud. This guide encourages active learning and recollection, breaking away from repetitive methods such as 'look, cover, write, check', enabling you to effortlessly recall and identify once-confusing spelling patterns.

Part I: Standards -- Standard English: biography of a symbol / Shirley Brice Heath -- The rise of standard English / Margaret Shaklee -- English Orthography / Wayne O'Neil -- Part II: The new generation -- How Pablo says "love" and "stove" / Timothy Shopen -- An afterword: How English speakers say "finger" and "sing" / Timothy Shopen -- Creative spelling by young children / Charles Read -- Part III: Dialects -- Sections from Bengt Loman's "conversations in a negro American dialect" (with recorded material on side 1 of the cassette) / Timothy Shopen -- The speech of the New York City upper class (with recorded materail on sides 1 and 2 of the cassette) / Geoffrey Nunberg -- Part IV: Dialect encounters standard -- On the application of sociolinguistic information: test evaluation and dialect differences in appalachia (with recorded material on side 2 of the cassette) / Walt Wolfram and Donna Christian -- An afterword: The accidents of history / Joseph M Williams.