[senco-forum] Re: Spelling reform

PS Jean -

On 05/08/2007 Sharon wrote:
> PS  Jean -
> RE: Spelling reform - I might eventually get used to losing the 
> useless 'ph/f'<

Hooray, hurrah, hurray. My dictionary even says it can be 'hurra'
as well. I did not know that.
Do u teach all those? Do u accept them all from pupils?

  >but I cannot 'see' the use of using 'u/you' unless you use U.<

What rule says that single letters that are words
should be capitalized. U do not capitalize 'a' in mid-sentence.

Spellings are man-made, not God-given.

'ewe'.
Do u say 'you', 'ewe' and 'yew' differently when talking?
So why write them differently?

Grandson, Dominic, has learned one way of writing
all sounds thru Jolly Phonics at nursery school and home.
(They did not teach him the vowel digrafs, but we did.)
He can write any word he wants,
and it is readable fonetically.
Now all he has to do is learn all the alternative
ways of writing those fonemes and when to use each one!

Jean
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Jean Hutchins, SE Surrey DA.
RSA Dip SpLD, AMBDA, retired.
E-mail: jeanhutchins1 at ntlworld.com
British Dyslexia Association Web: www.bdadyslexia.org.uk
Also into spelling reform Web: www.spellingsociety.org
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