> Learning to spell isn't memorizing lists of words, it's learning the rules of English and how words are actually put together Learning those rules involve le

> Learning to spell isn't memorizing lists of words, it's learning the rules of English and how words are actually put together Learning those rules involve learning the orthographies of French, Latin, and Greek, etc. as well as their associated transliteration schemes(usually multiple per language), and memorizing which one was used for which specific word(Hamburg[0] vs. burgher[1] vs. bourgeoisie[2] vs. Berger[3]), as well as words where the etymology was erroneous (ex. scissor[4]). I don't think most people actually learn this. [0] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bourgeoisie https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bourgeoisie [1] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/burgher https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/burgher [2] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bourgeoisie https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bourgeoisie [3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berger https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berger [4] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/scissor https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/scissor Edit: See comment below for better source.