Studying errors, not just marking them incorrect, is one of the most powerful and indelible kinds of learning.
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I got bad news this week. It's the best kind of bad news to get, really. No one is sick or dead, and it's a problem I can handle. I just wasn't really expecting it to happen so
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.
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.
"There is no discernable temporal pattern that marks a word as no longer a loanword. It's a specious sugestion, and, most importantly, it won't help anyone spell plurals of < o >-final words any better."