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55 relations: American and British English spelling differences, Apostrophe, Beatrice Winser, Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet, British English, Charles Butler (beekeeper), Comparison of American and British English, Cut Spelling, Deseret alphabet, Dewey Decimal Classification, Edward Rondthaler, English alphabet, English orthography, English Phonotypic Alphabet, English Spelling Society, English-language vowel changes before historic /l/, General American, Ghoti, History of English grammars, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Internet slang, Interspel, Isaac Pitman, John Hart (spelling reformer), John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, L-vocalization, List of polyglots, List of reforms of the English language, Melvil Dewey, Mont Follick, Noah Webster, Ohio Virtual Academy, Ore (disambiguation), Orthographic depth, Ough (orthography), Phonemic orthography, Presbyterian School, Pronunciation respelling for English, Radio Plus (Mauritius), Received Pronunciation, Regularized Inglish, Shavian alphabet, Simpel-Fonetik Method of Writing, Simplified Spelling Board, Sina Weibo, SMS language, SoundSpel, Spelling, Spelling of Shakespeare's name, SR1, ..., Standard written English, The Phonetic Journal, Translations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Webster's Dictionary, William Bullokar. Expand index (5 more) »
American and British English spelling differences
Many of the differences between American and British English date back to a time when spelling standards had not yet developed.
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Apostrophe
The apostrophe ( ' or) character is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets.
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Beatrice Winser
Beatrice Winser (March 11, 1869 – September 14, 1947) was an American librarian.
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Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet
Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet was Benjamin Franklin's proposal for a spelling reform of the English language.
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British English
British English is the standard dialect of English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom.
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Charles Butler (beekeeper)
Charles Butler (1571 – 29 March 1647), sometimes called the Father of English Beekeeping, was a logician, grammarist, author, priest (Vicar of Wootton St Lawrence, near Basingstoke, England), and an influential beekeeper.
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Comparison of American and British English
The English language was first introduced to the Americas by British colonization, beginning in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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Cut Spelling
Cut Spelling is a system of English-language spelling reform which reduces redundant letters and makes substitutions to improve correspondence with the spoken word.
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Deseret alphabet
The Deseret alphabet (Deseret: ππ―π π¨ππ―π» or ππ―ππ²ππ―π») is a phonemic English-language spelling reform developed between 1847 and 1854 by the board of regents of the University of Deseret under the leadership of Brigham Young, the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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Dewey Decimal Classification
The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), or Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system first published in the United States by Melvil Dewey in 1876.
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Edward Rondthaler
Edward Rondthaler (June 9, 1905 – August 19, 2009) was a typographer as well as a simplified spelling champion and chairman of the American Literacy Council.
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English alphabet
The modern English alphabet is a Latin alphabet consisting of 26 letters, each having an uppercase and a lowercase form: The same letters constitute the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
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English orthography
English orthography is the system of writing conventions used to represent spoken English in written form that allows readers to connect spelling to sound to meaning.
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English Phonotypic Alphabet
The English Phonotypic Alphabet is a phonetic alphabet developed by Sir Isaac Pitman and Alexander John Ellis originally as an English language spelling reform.
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English Spelling Society
The English Spelling Society is an international organisation, based in the United Kingdom.
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English-language vowel changes before historic /l/
In the history of English phonology, there have been many diachronic sound changes affecting vowels, especially involving phonemic splits and mergers.
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General American
General American (abbreviated as GA or GenAm) is the umbrella variety of American English—the continuum of accents—spoken by a majority of Americans and popularly perceived, among Americans, as lacking any distinctly regional, ethnic, or socioeconomic characteristics.
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Ghoti
Ghoti is a creative respelling of the word fish, used to illustrate irregularities in English spelling and pronunciation.
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History of English grammars
The history of English grammars begins late in the sixteenth century with the Pamphlet for Grammar by William Bullokar.
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Initial Teaching Alphabet
The Initial Teaching Alphabet (I.T.A. or i.t.a.) is a variant of the Latin alphabet developed by Sir James Pitman (the grandson of Sir Isaac Pitman, inventor of a system of shorthand) in the early 1960s.
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Internet slang
Internet slang (Internet shorthand, cyber-slang, netspeak, or chatspeak) refers to various kinds of slang used by different people on the Internet.
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Interspel
Interspel (from International English Spelling) is a set of principles introduced by Valerie YuleV.
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Isaac Pitman
Sir Isaac Pitman (4 January 1813 – 22 January 1897), was a teacher of the:English language who developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand.
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John Hart (spelling reformer)
John Hart (died 1574) was an English educator, grammarian, spelling reformer and officer of arms.
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John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, 4th Baronet, (30 April 183428 May 1913), known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was an English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath.
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L-vocalization
L-vocalization, in linguistics, is a process by which a lateral approximant sound such as, or, more often, velarized, is replaced by a vowel or a semivowel.
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List of polyglots
A polyglot is a person with a command of many languages.
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List of reforms of the English language
Over the years, many people have called for English language reform.
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Melvil Dewey
Melville Louis Kossuth "Melvil" Dewey (December 10, 1851 – December 26, 1931) was an American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, and a founder of the Lake Placid Club.
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Mont Follick
Montefiore Follick (31 December 1887 – 10 December 1958) was a British Labour Party politician, a campaigner for spelling reform, polyglot and advocate of decimal currency.
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Noah Webster
Noah Webster Jr. (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author.
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Ohio Virtual Academy
The Ohio Virtual Academy (OHVA) is one of many virtual charter schools that is powered by the curriculum provider K12 Inc. The academy, like most K12 Inc.
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Ore (disambiguation)
Ore is a term for mineral deposits.
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Orthographic depth
In linguistics, the orthographic depth of an alphabetic orthography indicates the degree to which a written language deviates from simple one-to-one letter–phoneme correspondence.
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Ough (orthography)
Ough is a letter sequence often seen in words in the English language.
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Phonemic orthography
In linguistics, a phonemic orthography is an orthography (system for writing a language) in which the graphemes (written symbols) correspond to the phonemes (significant spoken sounds) of the language.
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Presbyterian School
Presbyterian School is a private, coeducational Christian day school in the Museum District, Houston.
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Pronunciation respelling for English
A pronunciation respelling for English is a notation used to convey the pronunciation of words in the English language, which does not have a phonemic orthography (i.e. the spelling does not reliably indicate pronunciation).
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Radio Plus (Mauritius)
Radioplus is a private radio station owned and broadcast by Defimedia group, a leading company in Media and Communication in Mauritius.
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Received Pronunciation
Received Pronunciation (RP) is an accent of Standard English in the United Kingdom and is defined in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary as "the standard accent of English as spoken in the south of England", although it can be heard from native speakers throughout England and Wales.
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Regularized Inglish
Regularized Inglish is a revised English spelling system devised and advocated by Swedish linguist Axel Wijk, set out in his 1959 book Regularized English: An investigation into the English spelling reform problem with a new, detailed plan for a possible solution. Wijk's spelling system is moderate compared to other 20th century reforms.
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Shavian alphabet
The Shavian alphabet (also known as the Shaw alphabet) is an alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonetic orthography for the English language to replace the difficulties of conventional spelling.
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Simpel-Fonetik Method of Writing
Simpel-Fonetik is a system of English-language spelling reform that simplifies the reading, writing, and pronunciation of words in English.
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Simplified Spelling Board
The Simplified Spelling Board was an American organization created in 1906 to reform the spelling of the English language, making it simpler and easier to learn, and eliminating many of what were considered to be its inconsistencies.
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Sina Weibo
Sina Weibo is a Chinese microblogging (weibo) website.
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SMS language
SMS language, textese or texting language is the abbreviated language and slang commonly used with mobile phone text messaging, or other Internet-based communication such as email and instant messaging.
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SoundSpel
SoundSpel is an English-language spelling reform proposal.
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Spelling
Spelling is the combination of alphabetic letters to form a written word.
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Spelling of Shakespeare's name
The spelling of William Shakespeare's name has varied over time.
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SR1
Spelling Reform 1 or Spelling Reform step 1 (more commonly known as SR1) is an English spelling reform proposal advocated by British/Australian linguist Harry Lindgren.
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Standard written English
Standard written English refers to the preferred form of English as it is written according to prescriptive authorities associated with publishing houses and schools; the standard varieties of English around the world largely align to either British or American English spelling standards.
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The Phonetic Journal
The Phonetic Journal stylized as The Phonetic Journal. was the official journal of The Phonetic Society based at the Kingston Buildings in Bath, Somerset, England and is the first ever journal about phonetics.
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Translations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been translated into 174 languages.
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Webster's Dictionary
Webster's Dictionary is any of the dictionaries edited by Noah Webster in the early nineteenth century, and numerous related or unrelated dictionaries that have adopted the Webster's name.
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William Bullokar
William Bullokar was a 16th-century printer who devised a 40-letter phonetic alphabet for the English language.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_reform
