§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, allowing readers to connect the graphemes...

Middle English saw significant changes to its vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and orthography. Writing conventions during the Middle English period...

(except when ⟨ð⟩ is replaced by ⟨þ⟩). In contrast with Modern English orthography, Old English spelling was reasonably regular, with a mostly predictable...

to regulate orthography officially. For most languages (including English), no such authority exists, and a sense of "correct" orthography develops through...

correspondence is. English orthography, for example, is alphabetic but highly nonphonemic; it was once mostly phonemic during the Middle English stage, when...

communication English orthography – English spelling and punctuating rules English-language spelling reform – Proposed reforms to English spelling to be...

Welsh orthography: for use in words borrowed from English which retain the /dʒ/ sound, even when it originally was not represented by ⟨j⟩ in English orthography...

In China, letters of the English alphabet are pronounced somewhat differently because they have been adapted to the phonetics (i.e. the syllable structure)...

and orthographical conventions of literary English in the late 16th century and the 17th century are still very influential on modern Standard English. Most...

United States stopped using the long s between 1795 and 1810. In English orthography, the London printer John Bell (1745–1831) pioneered the change. His...

the letter L is rendered as L {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {L}}} . In English orthography, ⟨l⟩ usually represents the phoneme /l/, which can have several sound...

/p/, a voiceless bilabial plosive. In English orthography, ⟨p⟩ represents the sound /p/. A common digraph in English is ⟨ph⟩, which represents the sound...

[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. English orthography typically represents vowel sounds with the five conventional vowel...

conventional English orthography is "near-optimal", there is a rationale for current English spelling patterns. The standard orthography of English is the most...

of the same country, there are only slight regional variations in English orthography, the two most notable variations being British and American spelling...

which, because they are both usually represented in English orthography (and indeed most orthographies that use Latin script and Arabic numerals) with a...

make it reliably phonetic. (See English orthography § History.) Though limited, the following diacritical marks in English may be encountered, particularly...

have been movements to reform the spelling of the English language. It seeks to change English orthography so that it is more consistent, matches pronunciation...

it mostly represents a vowel and seldom a consonant, and in other orthographies it may represent a vowel or a consonant. In Latin, Y was named I graeca...

[ɸ] or /v/. In French orthography, ⟨f⟩ is used to represent /f/. It may also be silent at the end of words. In Spanish orthography, ⟨f⟩ is used to represent...

In 1864, Pronouncing Orthography was released as a simplified version of traditional English orthography to help children learn to read more quickly and...

Also, some words only exhibit stress alternation in certain dialects of English. For a list of homographs with different pronunciations (heteronyms) see...

Czech orthography is a system of rules for proper formal writing (orthography) in Czech. The earliest form of separate Latin script specifically designed...

har ikke ('have/has not'). Unlike English and French, such elisions are not accepted as part of standard orthography but are used to create a more "oral...

mappings of phonemes to characters whereas alphabetic orthographies like the English orthography tend to try to have direct mappings but end up mapping...

and kahakō are often omitted in English orthography. Due to the Hawaiian orthography's difference from English orthography, the pronunciation of the words...

dialects, like the English ⟨wh⟩. Some such digraphs are used for purely etymological reasons, like ⟨rh⟩ in English. In some orthographies, digraphs (and occasionally...

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re-encoding of the English orthography used by sighted people. However, braille is a separate writing system, not a variant of the printed English alphabet. Braille...

edition of his Japanese–English dictionary. The system is distinct from other romanization methods in its use of English orthography to phonetically transcribe...