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Minor edits made July 2017  \nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0) . This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the author (but not in any way that suggests that he endorses you or your use of the work) . Attribution should include the following information:  \nBrooks, Greg, Dictionary of the British English Spelling System. Cambridge, UK: Open  \nBook Publishers, 2015. 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[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/)  \n[Category:Yorkshire_Sculpture_Park\\#mediaviewer/File:YSP_11.jpg](Category:Yorkshire_Sculpture_Park#mediaviewer/File:YSP_11.jpg)  \nAll paper used by Open Book Publishers is SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative), and PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes) Certified.  \nPrinted in the United Kingdom and United States by Lightning Source for Open Book Publishers (Cambridge, UK) .  \nTo Maxine Burton,  \nfor being such a patient and reliable native-speaker informant, and for tolerating my obsession for so long.  \nContents  \nList of tables xvii  \nAbout the author xxi  \nAcknowledgments xxiii  \nA 40-year gestation xxv  \nHow to use this book xxix  \n1. Introduction 1  \n1.1 Context 1  \n1.2 Aims 2  \n1.3 Some terminology 3  \n1.4 Phonemes 4  \n1.5 Long and short vowels 5  \n1.6 Graphemes 5  \n1.7 Consonant clusters and ‘blends’ 6  \n1.8 Split digraphs and ‘magic \u003Ce>’ 6  \n1.9 Stem words and derived forms 7  \n1.10 Positions within words 7  \n1.11 Open and closed syllables 9  \n1.12 ‘2-phoneme graphemes’ 9  \n1.13 ‘Regular’ correspondences 10  \n2. The phonemes of spoken English 13  \n2.1 Choosing an accent to analyse 13  \n2.2 How many phonemes? 14  \n2.3 The consonant phonemes of Received Pronunciation 15  \n2.4 The vowel phonemes of Received Pronunciation 16  \n2.5 Polysyllabic words and word stress 18  \nviii Dictionary of the British English Spelling System  \n3. The phoneme-grapheme correspondences of English, 1: 19 Consonants  \n3.1 The general picture: the regular spellings of English 19 consonant phonemes  \n3.2 Order of description 21  \n3.3 Frequencies 22  \n3.4 The main system and the rest 23  \n3.5 Consonants with doubled spellings which are rare in one- 24  \nsyllable words: /b d g m n p t/, plus /r/  \n3.5.1 /b/ as in by 24  \n3.5.2 /d/ as in dye 25  \n3.5.3 /g/ as in goo 27  \n3.5.4 /m/ as in my 29  \n3.5.5 /n/ as in nigh 32  \n3.5.6 /p/ as in pie 34  \n3.5.7 /t/ as in tie 35  \n3.5.8 /r/ as in rye 39  \n3.6 /r/-linking 41  \n3.7 Consonants with doubled spellings which are regular at 47  \nthe end of one-syllable","cbCaitwf7mwoMBLb","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitwf7mwoMBLb","pdf",3826034,524,"English","# About the author\n## A 40-year gestation\n# How to use this book\n# 1. Introduction\n## Context\n## Aims\n## Some terminology\n## Phonemes\n## Long and short vowels\n## Graphemes\n## Consonant clusters and ‘blends’\n## Split digraphs and ‘magic \u003Ce>’\n## Stem words and derived forms\n## Positions within words\n## Open and closed syllables\n## ‘2-phoneme graphemes’\n## ‘Regular’ correspondences\n# 2. The phonemes of spoken English\n## Choosing an accent to analyse\n## How many phonemes?\n## The consonant phonemes of Received Pronunciation\n## The vowel phonemes of Received Pronunciation\n## Polysyllabic words and word stress\n# 3. The phoneme-grapheme correspondences of English, 1: 19 Consonants\n## The general picture\n## Order of description\n## Frequencies\n## The main system and the rest\n## Consonants with doubled spellings\n# 4. How do you know when to write a consonant letter double?\n## The easy bits\n## The main consonant-doubling rule\n## Other hints for writing a consonant letter double","[{\"question\":\"What does the Dictionary of the British English Spelling System focus on?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on British English spelling by linking sounds (phonemes) to written forms (graphemes), including vowel/consonant patterns and spelling correspondences.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book explain the phoneme inventory used for spelling analysis?\",\"answer\":\"It discusses how to choose an accent for analysis and details the consonant and vowel phonemes of Received Pronunciation, along with word stress and polysyllabic words.\"},{\"question\":\"When should a consonant letter be written double?\",\"answer\":\"The contents describe rules and hints for consonant doubling, including conditions related to word position, vowel length, and specific letter-pattern structures such as the Three-Letter Rule.\"}]","Dictionary of the British English Spelling System - Minor edits | PDF",1790848565,807]