[senco-forum] Re: How many rules?

And oiech spells 'week'.
  o as in one
  ie as in field
  ch as in Christmas
  Amanda
  Secondary SENCO
  Cornwall

Phil <pmacken1 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

Do you know that 

Ghoti spells 'fish"

Gh as in enough (gh =f),
'o' as in women (this comes from Australia and they say 'wimen")
'ti' as in station 

Good example of the difficulty of learning rules/sound patterns. 

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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Amanda
Secondary SENCO
Cornwall