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BCS ao at pathlink.com
Thu Mar 12 14:02:59 PDT 2009


Reply to Nick,

>> If you work with kids teaching them to read phonetically (rather than
>> look-say), you'll discover that by and large, the phonetic rules work
>> very well. They'll pronounce about 80% of the unfamiliar words
>> reasonably correctly.
>> 
> It "works" because they hear the phonetic pronunciation that they come
> up with and realize that it sounds similar to (but not the same as!)
> some particular word that they know. That clues them in that the word
> it *sounds like* is probably the word that they're trying to read. You
> can even hear them going through the process of starting with a
> phonetic pronunciation and then morphing it into the real word.
> (Besides, that remaining 20% is still quite a lot.)
> 

I think that English can't be spelled phonetically because it isn't pronounced 
consistently enough. Even if you spelled it 100% correct in the midwest US, 
the south, southwest, northwest and east, not to mention the UK would still 
be wrong.




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