• § Brackets and transcription delimiters. English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, allowing readers to connect the graphemes...
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    Middle English saw significant changes to its vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and orthography. Writing conventions during the Middle English period...
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  • (except when ⟨ð⟩ is replaced by ⟨þ⟩). In contrast with Modern English orthography, Old English spelling was reasonably regular, with a mostly predictable...
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  • to regulate orthography officially. For most languages (including English), no such authority exists, and a sense of "correct" orthography develops through...
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    communication English orthography – English spelling and punctuating rules English-language spelling reform – Proposed reforms to English spelling to be...
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  • correspondence is. English orthography, for example, is alphabetic but highly nonphonemic; it was once mostly phonemic during the Middle English stage, when...
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  • Welsh orthography: for use in words borrowed from English which retain the /dʒ/ sound, even when it originally was not represented by ⟨j⟩ in English orthography...
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  • In China, letters of the English alphabet are pronounced somewhat differently because they have been adapted to the phonetics (i.e. the syllable structure)...
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  • S (section English)
    United States stopped using the long s between 1795 and 1810. In English orthography, the London printer John Bell (1745–1831) pioneered the change. His...
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  • and orthographical conventions of literary English in the late 16th century and the 17th century are still very influential on modern Standard English. Most...
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