Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Part I
5. 1 What Needs Fixing? 3
6. 2 What Happened to English Spelling? 9
7. 3 Reading, Spelling, and Illiteracy 21
8. 4 Reforms for Other Languages 34
9. 5 Failed Reforms for English 53
10. 6 Is Reform Possible? 72
11. Part II
12. Introduction 84
13. 7 The Criteria for a Better Spelling for English 85
14. 8 Consonants 99
15. 9 Stressed Vowels 109
16. 10 The Unstressed Schwa 130
17. 11 How Might It Look? 137
18. 12 English Spelling: Optimal or Absurd? 147
19. Appendix: The Table of Vowels 151
20. Bibliography 165
21. Index 168