English orthographic morphology is rich and complex, and it continues to reveal new aspects of its structure and history the longer you study it.
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I've got a couple other posts in the hopper right now in varying stages of draftsmanship, but I wanted to announce the 2025 LEX Calendar in this space. It's available at a discount through the end of October. For the
It is a mistake to think that graphemes only spell phonemes, and that when they don't, it's weird or aberrant. It's not. It's totally normal.
The spelling can depend on when a word was borrowed or coined, and that's not much help for spelling correctly.
“There is all the poetry in the world in a name,” ~ H.D. Thoreau When I first start studying with a child or a family, one of the first words we study to start learning about spelling is their name. It can be a