Johnny in Topeka can’t read, but Janne in Helsinki is effortlessly finishing his storybooks. Such a disparity may be expected by now, but the reason might come as a surprise: It probably has much less ...

Annals of Dyslexia, Vol. 37 (1987), pp. 90-108 (19 pages) Currently popular systems for classification of spelling words or errors emphasize the learning of phoneme-grapheme correspondences and ...

Misty Adoniou is a Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne and an adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Canberra. She is the author of the Cambridge University Press book 'Spelling ...

Faizan Zaki, age 13, spelled the word “eclaircissement” and collapsed on the floor in victory as confetti showered him at the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee last week. The annual competition took ...

Even though it does not have many of the most difficult language features other languages have like grammatical gender, grammatical cases, adjective inflection, etc. it still contains some headaches ...

George Bernard Shaw, a member of the Simplified Spelling Soesiety The English language is notorious for complex spelling rules-and the many words that break them. We all know i comes before e, except, ...

BEIJING — Her face shining with confidence, Guan Zhinan began to spell the English word “occupation.” Minutes earlier, her last competitor standing had made a mistake; if she could give the correct ...