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Date: Sep 04 2007

Topic: Writing

Author: KevinVinsen

Lesson

The better writing systems such as Polish, Italian and Spanish are over 90% predictable. If you know how to pronounce a word, you know how to spell it.

English is about 40% phonemic and 40% predictable. There are patterns and regularities in English. If you know the regularities then you have about an 85% chance of spelling a word correctly.

The Second Edition Webster's spelt millennium - millenium.

A recent report on US freshman showed over 25% couldn’t spell Professor.

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