accusative cursing - stress

[Tom Zurinskas]

Indeed, all the influence of Pres T Roosevelt in consort with Andrew
Carnegie together concerned about inconsistent English spelling could not
change it a bit.  But a simple "phonetic" spelling system as I've developed
in truespel has interesting applications, for teaching, remediation,
integration, and research.

Truespel book 4 has the info on misspelling of words with stress between two
double consonants.  The misspelling data were derived from spellweb.com.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL4+
See truespel.com and the 4 truespel books at authorhouse.com.





>From: James Harbeck <jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA>
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>Subject: Re: accusative cursing - stress
>Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:37:49 -0400
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> >So in English
> >there must be a propensity to think that stress comes after double
> >consonant.
> >
>
>I'm afraid I'm much better at thinking by the "rules" than at
>figuring out what the average misspelling user is thinking. Side
>effect of making a living "fixing" other people's English, I guess.
>But I should spend some time picking out patterns in misconstrual...
>might be very interesting. Have you done a paper on it?
>
>I'm not a proponent of simplified spelling systems either, though --
>I prefer to take the organic route. I don't think anything imposed
>from above systematically would ever succeed, and I'm not sure I'd
>want it to! What with all the printed material in our weird current
>system that would no longer be legible for the new generations, and
>the fun we have with the quirks of the language, and the fact that it
>pays my bills...
>
>James Harbeck.
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