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"Can ghoti really be pronounced fish? Why is short in glove and love, but long in rove and cove? Why do English words carry such extra baggage as the silent in doubt and the silent in knee? Addressing these and many other questions about letters and the sounds they make, this volume provides a comprehensive analysis of American English spelling and pronunciation. Venezky illuminates the fully functional system underlying what can at times ...
14) E-mergency!
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The letter E has fallen and injured herself-- which letters will replace her and how will words be spelled without her? It's a real E-mergency!
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"This volume is the edited proceedings of a cross-language conference on Orthography, Reading, and Dyslexia held at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, on September 18-20, 1978, under the joint sponsorship of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) [and others]" -- Preface.
17) Spelling trouble
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Salem Hyde just isn't like other kids. For one thing, she's stubborn, independent, and impulsive. For another, she's a witch. Salem acts first and thinks later - which means most of her thinking involves coming up with excuses! Good thing she's been assigned an animal commpanion, Lord Percival J. Whamsford III. This over-anxious cat doesn't like Salem calling him Whammy, and Salem doesn't like listening to his long-winded explanations as to why she...
18) Spellbound
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Raven, a teenage mother and high school dropout living in a housing project, decides, with the help and sometime interference of her best friend Aisha, to study for a spelling bee which could lead to a college preparatory program and four-year scholarship.
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