How to become a writer, reader

The biggest spelling-chaos that it has ever been the misfortune of any nation to cope with.
(Dr. Mont Follick, The Case for Spelling Reform)

- The English language is now the first language of about 400 million people, the native language of 12 nations and the official or semiofficial language of 33 more nations. That means one in every seven people in the world speaks English. Geographically, it is the most wide-spread language on the Earth.
- Nowadays English is the most popular foreign language in Russia.

The aim of our research work:
To study spelling system and offer more simple method of spelling and reading English words.
Research problems:
1.To examine existing methods of spelling & reading English;
2.To help teachers, students and parent to
achieve success in spelling.

Students should know "Keys for Unlocking the Code in Which English Speech Is Recorded in Print":
- 26 ABC’s
- 44 Sounds
- 72 Main ways to spell those sounds
- 29 Rules that provide assistance most of the time
- 6 Syllable types and how to use them in decoding

26 ABC’s. There are 26 letters in the English alphabet.

There are 26 letters in the English alphabet but they stand for at least 44 sounds of real English.
The 44 phonic sounds of English Language consist of: Vowel Sounds , Consonant Sounds
"The spelling practices of modern English are the worst of any major language in the world."

44 phonic Sounds:
19 vowel sounds: [ei], [i:], [əi], [ɔʊ], [ju:], [æ], [e], [i], [ə], [ɔ], [ɔ:], [a:], [з:], [eə], [u:], [ʊ], [əi], [^], [au]
25 consonants: b, d, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w, y, z plus ch, sh, wh, ng and th, zh

There are approximately 72 ways to spell these sounds, which one will refer to as phonograms.
What Are Phonograms?
A phonogram is a letter or combination of letters that represent a sound.
For example:
ck is a phonogram that says /k/ as in clock.
s is a phonogram that says /s/ as in sat or /z/ as in has.
oy is a phonogram that says /oi/ as in boy.

List of The phonograms:

Some Examples Of Rules That Provide Assistance Most Of The Time:
- There are five spellings for /ə:/: Her first nurse works early. In addition, at the ends of words like dollar and doctor, the –ar and –or will often say /з:/
-All, written alone, has two l’s, but when used as a prefix, one l is dropped. (al so [‘ə :lsɔu], al most [‘ǝ:lmǝust])
- Till and full, written alone, have two l’s, but when used as a suffix, only one l is written. (un til [ə n’til]; beau ti fu [‘bju:tǝful])

There are 6 syllable types:
OPEN SYLLABLES
CLOSED SYLLABLES
E-CONTROLLED SYLLABLES
R-CONTROLLED SYLLABLES
CONSONANT-LE SYLLABLES
VOWEL PAIR SYLLABLES
"Any [English] spelling-book gives you five thousand words commonly mis-spelt. There is no spelling-book in Germany. There is no spelling-book in Italy.“
(William Barkley, The Two Englishes, 1965).

English is by far the most erratically spelled of modern languages."
New way studying spelling
26 ABC’s;
44 Sounds;
72 Main ways to spell those sounds (tales and spelling cards);
29 Rules that provide assistance most of the time;
6 Syllable types and how to use them in decoding.

The English language has the worst system of spelling of any major language."
- Using the basic phonograms and spelling rules, we can spell most words in the English language.
- Only 3% of the words were completely irregular (such as said and of).
- 175 items are so manageable, and set the stage for students to see the logic of English and to begin making fast and effective gains.
- Our research work can help teachers, pupils and parents to study bases of English spelling.