Trying to convey, or if you imagine trying to spell the sound of aĬatcher catching a fastball or the sound of laughter or applause, you Sounds like so someone would recognize by reading it what sound you are If you imagine trying to spell what thunder Which is a complex process involving all kinds of intricate sound/symbolĬorrespondence that is something of an approximation to how to write Who know how to read well generally never knew, or have forgotten, howĬomplex reading is - in that it is a visual representation of speech, Whether the word "acknowledge" shouldn't be thought of as "ack. "psychology" or the "silent k" in "knowledge", which makes you wonder Or others have talked about the "silent p" in Show, in the word "eight" the only letter that seems to fit and make As one comedienne pointed out on a recent TV Have in English are far, far more than 26, and are often different inĭifferent words. Sound and always being pronounced the same, the number of sounds letters Words or contexts where they appear, although, as pointed out, sinceĮnglish is not phonetic in the sense of each letter having only one Visual appearances of the 26 letters have the same sounds in the same How many different appearances or shapes those letters are represented Then, there are only 26 letters in the English alphabet, regardless of Symbolized sense that there are two forms of it (or more, if differentįont styles of it are radically different looking"). In that sense there is only one letter "gee", whether it is Spell words out loud or when we recite the alphabet - names which couldīe written out, if we wanted to, as "ay, bee, see, dee, eee, eff, gee,"Įtc. There are (only) 26 letter "names" - the names that we say when we The word “fish” if you pronounced the “gh” as in “rough”, the “o” as in “women”,Īnd the “ti” as in “nation. For example, George Bernard Shaw pointed out that “ghoti” would spell Particularly phonetic because some letters have different sounds (such as ‘hard’Īnd soft “c’s” and “g”s) or where vowels have long and short or other sounds,ĭepending on other parts of the word, and where different combinations of It is for some people, particularly in a language like English, which is not More different symbols you have to learn in order to be able to read a language, the more difficult Who have difficulty recognizing, remembering, or distinguishing shapes, particularly I mention all this because it seems to me it has greatīearing on the ease or difficulty of learning to read and on reading for people Help struggling readers or not, but theoretically it might. Reading in the other case, and then finally practice normal print with They become more comfortable reading in one case, they can practice Learn to recognize the variations found in the opposite case. Print that has all upper case letters first or all lower case lettersįirst, so that they can learn just the 26 letters instead of having to Learning to recognize and read letters could be helped by giving them It might be that students who have difficulty Lower case "j" are a smaller size "I" and "J" respectively, but the dotīoth designates that and also disguises it for someone just learning to White boxes the bottom portion of the lower case "i" and the The letters in the green boxes seem to me to be something of aĬross between those in the yellow boxes and those in the white ones -Ĭase, but where the dot above the rest of the letter indicates lowerĬase in the same way that size difference does in the letters in the The ones in the yellow boxes – the “b” is one curved stroke short of the “B”,Īnd the “h” is one straight stroke short of the “H”). Resemble each other more than the ones in the aqua boxes do, but less than The letter with the same name) or they might be considered different enoughįrom each other to be different letters that sound the same and have the same Sufficiently to be fairly readily recognized as being the same letter (i.e., 1Ĭonsidered to have lower- and upper-case letters that resemble each other Look identical, or nearly identical, except for size. In the white boxes, the upper- and lower-case letters For example "G" does not look at all like "g" and "R" does not look at all like "r". The pairs in the aqua color boxes have very different looking lower-case shapes from their upper-case Letters even though they have the same letter name and even though they have Letters that do not look at all alike should be considered two different There are two exceptions to my explanation, and I will point them outĪfter I give the explanation, which is that upper and lower case versions of Instead of the usual 26 it is said to have. I would like to give an explanation for why we shouldĬonsider the English alphabet as having 34 letters (or possibly 36, or even 39)
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