English Spelling Topics
'I have only to say the word spelling & everyone will see again before him the spectre which haunted our first schooldays and will not leave us in peace even in old age.' Eric Gill
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General
Spelling
facts and fancies page
Spelling Games
Letter games
Writing systems in different languages
Examples of
scripts
Figures for script users
Direction of writing
Signs and writing
Shapes used as letters
Odd public
signs
Differences between spoken and written
language
Street spelling mistakes
Children's
spelling
Pre-writing
Linguistics and writing
Spelling
reform (ita, Shavian alphabet etc)
Twain
speech
George Bernard Shaw
preface
Useful
quotations on writing
Some
definitions of writing system terms
Novelists' spelling of
dialect
Eye
dialect
The language of the street site
British
and American styles of spelling
Alternative
sound spelling alphabets
'St' as an abbreviation
Spelling Stats Menu
Odd apostrophes
Hyphens Hyphens
as links
its
and it's
Omitting
word spaces
Frequency of English punctuation marks
Computer-Mediated Communication
e-mails text messages chatrooms
Fish and chip shops Car number plates Pop groups Dogs' names Horses' names Olde Tyme spelling House names 'K' spellings shop signs Punctuation in names Numbers as words Business names etc
L1 Users
English spelling mistakes on the web Native speaker mistakes until/till/'til examples Spelling mistakes by famous writers
Historical English spelling
Changes in the letters of English
Samples of
English 940-1749
The and Ye: historical examples
The and Ye; Olde Tyme Spelling
Extra letters added to English spelling
Features of English Spelling
Common patterns of English
Letter
frequencies for English
Past tense rules in written and spoken
English
Letter to sound correspondences
Consonant doubling
Vowel correspondence rules
Silent Letters
Rules for English surnames
Unusual
English surnames
I
before E
Structure word spelling rules
Linguists and English
spelling
Venezky Albrow Chomsky
L2 users
Spelling mistakes by: Greek
users Chinese
users Spanish
users Japanese
users Engrish.com (external link) Bengali
children Koreans
L2
experiments L2
learners acquiring spelling Bilingual public signs
Spelling rhymes 1 Spelling rhymes 2 Spelling spoofs Spelling 'jokes' Cockney alphabet Speech Reform
Spelling articles etc by Vivian Cook
Past tense spelling: implications for lexical spelling and dual process models
Background to the English Writing System
Nu
Spelin' 4 Old
Getting
in a strop about spelling
Helping
children with spelling
Is
spelling really hard?
Hard
Spell
The Liter Cide to Spelling
Can
they spell your name in Karachi?American and British Spelling
Various tests on different aspects of English
spelling are available on-line Other tests
Booklists
Books
Vivian Cook (2004), The English Writing System, Arnold; Japanese trans 2008
Vivian Cook (2004), Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary, Profile. American edition, Simon and Schuster 2005
Vivian Cook and Benedetta Bassetti (eds.) (2005), Second Language Writing Systems, Multilingual Matters. Chinese edition 2007
Vivian Cook and Des Ryan (eds.) (2016), The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System
Note: you may need SILDoulos for some of the IPA symbols on these pages to work. It can be downloaded from the Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Formerly at homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c, which is now defunct