[senco-forum] Re: How many rules?

Philip EP wrote:
 >The /a/ in mark is an r controlled vowel,<

With exceptions like 'paragon'.
And another rule for '-are' words, like 'care, spare',
with 'are' itself being an exception.
And another rule for 'arr' as in 'marry, carrot'.

 >80% of words
follow the rules, they just need to be learned and then used.<

How many rules do u have to get that 80%?
Even with all those rules, u are saying that
1 word in every 5 is irregular,
often the high frequency words.

And the very people who need the rules the most
are the ones with memory difficulties.

In 1975 I discovered Alpha to Omega
and was amazed by all the 'rules'.
I did not know they existed,
let alone that anyone needed to learn them.

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: www.simplifiedspelling.org
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