Spelling reforms

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English

 

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Maria R

 

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April 19, 2017

 

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The spelling system of the West Saxon had very strict rules of parallelism between Old English phonological values and Latin symbols or symbol construction. Having more than one system of spelling, it depends on where texts were written. Although local dialect features were reflected in the orthography of words, there was a certain consistency approach within each dialect area...
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During King Alfred's reign, only a few contemporary Old English texts existed to allow a clear analysis of spelling. Spelling was fairly standardized and books were produced from a small area where there was little dialect variation. "Thus, Old English has a more accurate representation of current pronunciation than modern orthography does" (English: history, diversity and change, p...
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