Year: | 1980, July | ||
Short description: | Brengelman's "Orthoepists, Printers, and the Rationalization of English Spelling" | ||
Medium description: | F H Brengelman's "Orthoepists, Printers, and the Rationalization of English Spelling" States that at the end of the 1600's English spelling could be seen as having the following characteristics: - most consonants realised fairly consistently - vowels were realised with "some degree of consistency" - final 'e' was used widely but to realise both long and short vowels and also after single consonants and consant groups - borrowed words were spelled to reflect their various origins - most words allowed at least 2 spellings Further Brengelman states that those working on orthography at this time agreed on 3 things about English spelling: - it should reflect the English phonetic system as much as possible - it should use characters from the Latin alphabet or "characters clearly derived from it" - "it should be economical" and that the disagrement was about the relative weighting to be given to these factors | ||
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