EDUC 0915 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Xylophone, Philia, Theta
31 Jan 2017
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Anyone who teaches foreign students, and anyone who teaches in another country, inevitably gets asked why is english spelling so strange? . Though, walk, know, cough, laugh, knight, wrong, thorough, talk, pneumonia, archaeology, philadelphia . When we compare words in other languages that are spelled the same as english - english stands out as eccentric. Consider the pronunciation of the names of these four american towns: This phenomenon is seen all the time when family names from european continent to. (one bring of the stageburg family in america has insisted on the norwegian pronunciation. Remember that all of our earlier discussion about the spread of orthographies in the world took place in the days before the invention of printing. 99% of the world was illiterate and the only way to write was by hand, with a pen, on paper, on parchment, or animal skins.
