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Dictionary of the British English Spelling System

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Greg Brooks

How to use this book

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1To find an explanation of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols, see chapter 2.

2To look up the various ways a consonant phoneme is spelt, find its entry in chapter 3.

3To look up the various ways a vowel phoneme is spelt, find its entry in chapter 5.

4To look up the various ways a grapheme beginning with a consonant letter is pronounced, find its entry in chapter 9.

5To look up the various ways a grapheme beginning with a vowel letter is pronounced, find its entry in chapter 10.

6To find full lists and numbers of graphemes and phoneme-grapheme correspondences, see chapter 8.

7To find lists of the major grapheme-phoneme correspondences, see Table 9.4 in chapter 9 and Table 10.1 in chapter 10.

8For teacher-friendlier lists of both kinds of correspondence, see Appendix B.

9Rules and hints for writing consonant letters double are in chapter 4.

10Some spelling rules for vowel phonemes are in chapter 6.

11Chapter 11 evaluates a few pronunciation rules for vowel graphemes.

12For discussion of assumptions and technicalities see Appendix A.

13To find discussions of individual words, search for them in the online version, as follows:

  • Find the book at http://www.openbookpublishers.com/​product/​325

  • Click on ‘READ THE HTML’.

  • In the ‘Search this book’ box enter the word you’re interested in.

  • If this fails to produce even one Google search result, sorry, the word isn’t in the book.

  • But if a Google search result does come up, click on it to bring up the relevant chapter, then press Control+F, enter the word you’re interested in and press Return. Happy browsing!

14Caveat emptor: Here are some things this book is not about (see also the penultimate paragraph of section 1.2):

  • It has very little to say about the teaching of spelling – for a handy online guide to that and to the anlaysis of spelling errors, see http://spellingmeshguide.pbworks.com/​?_ci=15968.HqTypA-2

  • It does not attempt to teach the technicalities of phonetics or phonology – for those see Cruttenden (2014) and Roach (2009);

  • Because the range of accents with which English is spoken is so vast, attempting to relate English spelling to all of them would produce an encyclopedia, hence this book focuses solely on the British Received Pronunciation accent (and British spelling). Should l live long enough, I may try to produce a parallel volume on the General American accent (and US spelling);

  • It does not attempt to relate the description of the spelling system to psycholinguistic theories about the processes involved in reading and spelling (e. g. ‘dual-route theory’) – for all of that I recommend Snowling and Hulme (2005);

  • It does not tackle in any detail the question of how to tell from the written forms of English words which of their spoken counterparts’ syllables are stressed and which are not – but for some reflections on this see section A. 10 in Appendix A.

15To hear the phonemes of English pronounced in context with an RP accent, try this British Library website: http://www.bl.uk/​learning/​langlit/​sounds/​case-studies/​received-pronunciation

16For very user-and teacher-friendly guidance on spelling, Jazzy Spelling Secrets: Teacher’s Toolkit, shortly to be published by Jaz Ampaw-Farr of Which Phonics Ltd, sign up to her website: http://whichphonics.co.uk

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