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A Study of Some of the Most Commonly Misspelled Words An article by Cornell Kimball on the difficulties writers in English face in deciding the dictation of many common words in daytoday usage. Also contains sources on 11 publications with lists of commonly misspelled words.
Clear Ink's SpellWeb uses search engines to vote on the spelling or popularity of a pair of words or phrases.
DeMeyere's Shavian Typeface Beautiful Shavian typeface created by DeMeyere based on the work of Kingsley Read, the creator of the Shavian alphabet. Versions for Windows and MacIntosh. PDF documentation. (explanations are provided both in English and Shavian scripts).
English Spelling Reform arguments and links in favor of reform.
Fanetiks: Reformed (Phonetic) English Spelling Fanetiks a spelling reform scheme put forward by L. Craig Schoonmaker. Used successfully as a teaching tool.
Feathersite Poultry farmer has assembled an alphabetical list of chicken breeds as well as details on several species of domestic birds.
Marie's Free Spelling Course Resource Site Free, 30 unit spelling curriculum.
Each of the 30 units includes: Weekly work Plan, pre-tests, exercises, dictation sentences, final tests and answer key.
My Spelling Bee A spelling program that allows you to add your own words using a microphone and a sound card. Practice spelling bees and multiplayer spelling bees
Online Technical Writing: Comon Grammar, Usage, and Spelling Problems Commas, colons, semicolons, apostrophes, hyphens, comma splices and runons, fragments, problem modifiers, parallelism, subjectverb agreement, pronoun references, pronoun case (who, whom), capitalization, numbers vs words, symbols and abbreviations.
Online Technical Writing: Spelling Problems Homonyms, doubled internal consonants, internal syllables or letters, words ending in ance and able, words ending in cede, seed and sede, the silent e rule, doubling consonants, words ending in ie, ei and y.
Phoneticizing Names (Fanetiks) Table of first names and surnames according to Fanetiks as proposed by L. Craig Schoonmaker. Two variants are included: Fanetik Spelling and Augméntad Fanétik.
Reading and Writing books Books on How To Teach Reading Spelling Book, phonics, flashcards
Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee offers general information about the contests and sells books and tapes.
SpaceAge Literacy Unlimited materials that combine phonics and whole language approaches with new characters.
Spelling Reform Educational tools to help students in their difficulties in traditional English writing. Bookshop, software, reviews, orders from Mantex.co.uk . Site also reproduces Mark Twain's short article A plan for improving English language spelling.
Spelling Reform: Site by John J. Reilly General website on spelling reform including John Reilly's own reform scheme Altscript. Sections on historic figures supporting spelling reform. Speling reform schemes. Also list of societies, persons and resources promoting spelling reform. Links.
Spelling Test a quiz on fifty commonly misspelled words.
The Hoppers Word Games ML Spelling word games with Japanese. Missing letters spelling game. Fill in the blank spelling games. Word games for kids and esl students.
The Problem of English Spelling Article By Duncan MacGregor showing the anomalies in traditional English spelling and arguments for the need of spelling reform for the English language. Links.
The Spelling Reform Ring Guidelines and instructions to join the ring. Ringmaster: John J. Reilly. Links.
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics Opened in July '94 to study the genetics of multifactorial diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and obesity.
Variant Spellings in American English Dictionaries An article by Cornell Kimball showing inconsistencies in spellings of many traditional American English words in different dictionaries of the English language.
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