LL-L: "Spelling" (was "Grammar") LOWLANDS-L, 15.JAN.2001 (04) [E]

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From: Bryan E. Schulz [bryans at northnet.net]
Subject: Silent letters

At 05:45 PM 1/14/01 -0800, Sandy wrote:

>Errors like this are well guarded against by the educational
>system if the language has one, because people are taught to
>write "should have" even when they say "shoulda", and so on,
>and in formal writing as opposed to creative writing an editor
>simply wouldn't allow forms like "shoulda". That goes for
>English, but in traditional Scots writing I find that parsing
>errors are rare. When they do occur they seem to be due to the
>writer attempting to write what he has heard of an unfamiliar
>dialect.

Has there been a discussion of the silent letters(non-vocal) used in
spelling?
Ex.  should...rather than...shoud ( without and l)
Are these spelling a form of morphology?
French spelling is notorious for these spelling combinations but LL and
other related languages don't seem to have this form of writing/spelling.

Bryan E. Schulz

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