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?
Optimality Theory focuses more on competing constraints than on conventions, and it considers that the optimal form is the one that incurs the least egregious contraventions of those constraints.
On the end table next to my sofa is a small floral frame with a postcard of the above painting of Mystic Farm, my beloved best friend's beloved
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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