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> There's no letter-to-sound correspondence in English. There is, it's just very complicated (hundreds of rules), as well as accent-dependent, and there are lo
by DonaldFisk 10y ago
> There's no letter-to-sound correspondence in English.
There is, it's just very complicated (hundreds of rules), as well as accent-dependent, and there are lots of exceptions.
- tacon 10y agoRemember phonics for kids learning to read? And "just sound it out"? I try that from time to time on ESL friends, and the looks I get... I think that is the difference between years of passive intelligible input vs. starting from scratch.
- pessimizer 10y agoWith only 56 somewhat complex rules, you can pronounce things correctly 85% of the time! http://zompist.com/spell.html http://zompist.com/spell.html