There’s a reason spelling bees are ... tame the wild beast that is English spelling. Benjamin Franklin was one such beast tamer. In his 1768 “Scheme for a New Alphabet and Reformed Mode ...

French has only about thirty-eight phonemes and Spanish a mere twenty-five, fewer than the twenty-seven letters in its alphabet ... English spelling of words already borrowed from Latin. The word ...

You thought you knew your ABCs, but our alphabet used to ... so ‘Ye Olde English Shoppe’ would have been pronounced by contemporary readers as ‘the Old English Shop’ today,” she says.

But first, Henry explores how English ... come to spelling, but we do not want to make any more trouble.” George Bernard Shaw also implemented what he considered a simplified alphabet that ...

You know the alphabet ... And English scribes did something very clever with it—if they wrote b⁊, that would stand for "band" or "bond" or whatever spelling that particular scribe used ...

It’s great fun to talk about the English ... Vukoti was 2 years old when he entered his first spelling competition, in Ashburn, Va., in 2012. “He was very much into the alphabet and numbers ...

defeated Faizan Zaki, a 12-year-old from Plano, Texas ... like sound that can be represented by any vowel in the English alphabet — tripped him up, much like it did for several spellers in ...

Janet Mac Supported by By Sam Corbin Breakdowns in communication are a tale as old as biblical ... offered a phonetic alphabet instead. Phonetic alphabets, also known as spelling alphabets ...

Henry is the author of Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English ... Alphabet” and urged all books to be printed “anti-absurdly.” He dubbed his converts “anti absurdists.” As ...