The fourth anniversary of Shameless Spelling came and went without fanfare on April 1, no fooling. I had intended to acknowledge it with a post that day, but alas, I was sick in bed, out of state unexpectedly, without my laptop. This coming June
As it turns out, the key was not in studying the part with the <r(r)>; they key was in figuring out what the <y> is (and is not) in each of the families.
I am planning to attend two conferences in Southern California a week apart: the IDALA Language & Learning Conference on Saturday, March 8th, at UCLA, and the CSHA Convergence Conference in Pasadena, March 13-16. I'm not presenting at either conference, just exhibiting.
Note that I didn't have to decide when or how to introduce the IPA. The opportunity to introduce it and its relationship to understanding English spelling arose organically from our syntactic study.
Why is a great etymologist a great etymologist?
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