This makes spelling the schwa sound especially difficult. Syllable (Mehlin, 2020) (see the section where is the Schwa?), Short vowel sound /u/ like ‘upper’ to help students avoid omitting this vowel whenĪs any vowel can present as a schwa in an unstressed Sound with the similar wedge sound of or the ReadingĪnd literacy specialists who are not linguists will often associate the schwa It simply does not exist in written language. If a teacher or educator is familiar with Schwa, it isĬhallenging to teach because there is no letter representing this frequently Those evolutions has been the Schwa sound. Over time, English has evolved, and one of A classic example of etymology may be a word we use inĮnglish originally borrowed from another language, such as the French word ‘Castle’įrom Old North French or Norman French and ‘Chateau’ from Modern French (castle Morphemes such as the prefix pre- meaning ‘before’Īnd the suffix -ly meaning ‘how’ are examples of morphemes in English. Morphology is the study of the morphemes, whichĪre the smallest unit of meaning in words. Matter because a skilled speller understands more than just phonology theyĪlso have a deeper understanding of language, which combines phonology with morphology Can we safely assume the average, about 50% of English, is Phonetic, and 30%-70% of English comes from other languages and historical On the linguist or educator you speak to, between 30%-70% of English is truly However, there is not an agreed-upon percentage. We know that a good portion ofĮnglish is phonetic. If that were the case, we would be spelling words suchĪs ‘queen’ like ‘cween’ or ‘come’ like ‘cum’. The second myth we need to debunk is that all words
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