American English Spelling Kevin P. Gilheany Packed with industry research

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American English Spelling Kevin P. Gilheany Packed with industry researchIn this study of the English language as it is spelled in America, D. W. Cummings demonstrates that behind the apparent disorder of spelling in American English lies a self regulating and self reorganizing system that is responsive to four kinds of imperative: phonetic, semantic, etymological, and systemic. Cummings offers a systematic theory of orthography and applies this theory to the American English vocabulary with numerous examples. Cummings