Kurt Nolte wrote:
>
>Or in the sound of an "a" such as "neighbor" or "weigh," hmm? ;)
>
>
Please forgive me if this has come through twice. I sent the
message this morning, but it's apparently failed to reach its destination.
The long A sound can be spelled:
a (amoral, anal)
a - e (ate)
ay (day)
ea (great)
eigh (as in your examples, above)
ai (faint)
e - e (fete)
aigh (straight)
How about the NINE different ways of spelling the "r" sound? And
don't even TALK to me about the nefarious Mr. Schwa!
Aside from writing novels and teaching ingrateful high school
students online, I'm an education specialist, working with children who
suffer from learning disabilities. (Most of them have trouble with
vowel sounds for precisely the reason I've outlined above.) Learning
how to read and spell in English requires very strong visual memory
skills. For people like me who are primarily auditory, the need to
learn how a word LOOKS, rather than how it sounds, leads to much vexation.
For example:
Different
Difference
Differentiate, or differenciate?
The sound of each combination is identical, but without the ability
to recognize the standard spelling, it's easy to misspell. I make those
kinds of mistakes all the time and it drives me CRAZY!
>English, I actually love it.
>
>
I have a "love / hate" relationship with English. Most people
consider me fairly articulate, and in doing so, forget (or simply don't
know) that it's not my "mother tongue." I learned how to speak well in
order to avoid the teasing laughter of neighborhood kids, and while
NOBODY criticizes my manner of speech anymore, my spelling is another
matter . . . Nonetheless, I love to write and wish my books would sell
well enough that I could focus on writing and drop teaching altogether.
: - )
robert luis rabello
"The Edge of Justice"
"The Long Journey"
New Adventure for Your Mind
http://www.newadventure.ca
Ranger Supercharger Project Page
http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/
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