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Teale, William H. – Australian Journal of Reading, 1981
Examines word families, words grouped together by common meaning, orthography, form, and spelling. Discusses ways to encourage children's language acquisition and understanding of how words work in specific contexts. (HTH)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Elementary Education, Etymology, Language Acquisition
Stevens, William J. – The English Journal, 1965
The "virtues" and "defects" of both present English spelling patterns and proposed spelling reforms are examined in this article. In lieu of reform, the author proposes that new spellings be accepted as the demand is overwhelmingly felt. An enumerated series of observations deals largely with phonetic and spelling interrelationships. (RL)
Descriptors: Dialects, English, English Instruction, Etymology
D'Eugenio, Antonio – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1978
Discusses secondary stress in various types of words (e.g., in certain parts of speech, with certain spelling patterns, etc.) and in various kinds of sentences and communicative situations. (KM)
Descriptors: English, Etymology, Form Classes (Languages), Language Patterns
Allsopp, Richard, Ed. – 1996
This dictionary is designed to provide an inventory of English usage in the Caribbean environment and lifestyle as known and spoken in each territory but not recorded in the standard British and American desk dictionaries. It cross-references different names for the same item throughout the anglophone Caribbean, identifies different items called…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, English, Etymology, Foreign Countries

Stanley, John – 1996
The report describes an Ontario (Canada) project to establish standards for the written and oral languages of its natives, including two language families and 13 languages still present in the province. The project has two streams: (1) a series of language conferences intended to establish consensus within an entire community regarding standard…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Canada Natives, Dictionaries, Etymology