Lukol Directory: Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Natural: Indo-European: Germanic: English: Spelling Reform: Problems in Traditional Spelling

Variant Spellings in American English Dictionaries An article by Cornell Kimball showing inconsistencies in spellings of many traditional American English words in different dictionaries of the English language. http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/spell/vars... The Problem of English Spelling Article By Duncan MacGregor showing the anomalies in traditional English spelling and arguments for the need of spelling reform for the English language. Links. http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa735/eng_sp.h... A Study of Some of the Most Commonly Misspelled Words An article by Cornell Kimball on the difficulties writers in English face in deciding the dictation of many common words in day-to-day usage. Also contains sources on 11 publications with lists of commonly misspelled words. http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/spell/erro... Online Technical Writing: Spelling Problems Homonyms, doubled internal consonants, internal syllables or letters, words ending in -ance and -able, words ending in -cede, -seed and -sede, the silent -e rule, doubling consonants, words ending in -ie, -ei and -y. http://www.io.com/~hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml...

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