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.
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Why is a great etymologist a great etymologist?
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.
“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
There. Is. No. Rule. That. Cranberry / Unique / Fossilized. Morphemes. Can't. Be. Analyzed.