VOWEL SPELLING PATTERNS OF ENGLISH
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Retain reliable patterns.
Overlook acceptable patterns.
Shoot unphonetic words.
Exoticism --- "i"(machine, ski, unique)
SR targets --- ae(aegis), oe(coelacanth), ey(key, medley), ei(receipt), ie(shield, cookie)
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alley === allee
key === kee
ceiling === ceeling
deceit === deceet
deceive === deceeve
receipt === receet
receive === receeve
seize === seeze
seizure === seezure
transceiver === transceever
Retain them --- i/yCe, iCle, -i/-y, -ie/-ye, -igh.
Overlook them --- -uy(buy), -iCC(child, mind, pint), ei(feisty), eye.
Exoticism --- "ai"(aikido, haiku)
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aisle === yle
height === hight, hite
sleight === slyte
island, isle, islet --- They hav a silent "s".
Retain them --- oCe, oCle, oa, oe, oh
Overlook them --- ow(show), oCC(cold, gold, host, most, post), eau(bureau, plateau), au(au pair, chauffeur, gauche, haute), bouquet, brooch
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comb === coam
sew /soU/ === soe
sewing === soeing
control === controle
controller === controler
roll === role
scroll === scrole
stroll === strole
troll === trole
soul === soal
shoulder === sholder
poultry === poltry
mould === mold
bowl === boal
own === oan
owner === oaner
ow to oe
belloe(bellow), beloe(below), bloe(blow), floe(flow), knoe(know), knoen(known), sloe(slow), throe(throw), windoe(window) ; sho(show)
cocoa === cocoe
whoa === whoe(?)
Retain them --- uCe, uCle, -ue, eu, ew
Overlook them --- -ugh(Hugh, Hughes, Hughie), Houston, impugn ; (coupon)
SR targets --- oe(shoes), ui(fruit, juice, suit), "iew"(view, overview, review)
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beautiful === beutiful, butiful
beautify === beutify, butify
beauty === beuty, buty (cf. duty)
bruise === bruse
cruise === cruse
decruit === decrute
fruit === frute
juice === juce
juicy === jucy
nuisance === nusance
recruit === recrute
sluice === sluce
suit === sute
suitable === sutable
(We still hav "bruit" and "puisne".)
view === vew
viewer === vewer
viewpoint === vewpoint
overview === overvew
preview === prevew
review === revew
shoes === shues
Retain them --- "oo" --- boom, boost, room, taboo
Overlook them --- "u"(rule), "ew"(crew), etc.
Tolerate them --- "ou"(acoustic, group, soup) ; (coupon)
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canoe === canoo
"-ove"
aproove(approve), moove(move), improove(improve), proove(prove), remoove(remove), etc.
"oo" --- book, foot, hood, look, rookie, shook, stood, took, wood
"u" --- bull, bush, cushion, full, pull, push, put, sugar
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could === cood
should === shood
would === wood, wud
ou --- about, out, loud, round, south
ow --- brown, cow, now, plow, vowel
exoticism --- gaucho, gauss
"oi"--- broil, coil, oil, soil, toilet
"oy"--- boy, oyster, soy, toy
"au"--- cause, faucet, pause, sauce
"aw"--- awful, crawl, law, straw
Overlook them --- "al"(chalk, talk, walk)
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abroad === abraud
broad === braud
broadcast === braudcast
water === wauter
"a" --- father, spa
Occasionally, with "aa" and "ah".
Others --- calm, palm, psalm, and aunt(BrE)
er --- certain, concern, her, nerd
ir --- birth, circle, fir, stir
ur --- curtain, fur, hurdle, turn
SR targets --- "ear"(learn, research), "our"(journal, sojourn)
"ar"--- bar, card, dark, martial
SR targets --- "ear"(hearken, heart, hearth)
Overlook it --- "sergeant"
"air"--- fair, pair, stair
"-are"---bare, care, snare
Overlook them --- -eir(heir, their), -ere(there, where)
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--- "ear"(bear, swear, wear)
bear --- bair
pear --- (peir)
tear --- tair(verb)
swear --- swair
wear --- wair
forbear --- forbair
forswear --- forswair
outwear --- outwair
aerial === airial
canary === canairy
scarce === scairce
"-ere"--- here, mere, sphere
"ear" --- dear, hear, smear
"eer" --- beer, deer, steer, pioneer
SR targets --- weird, weirdo, fierce, pierce, frontier
"ire"--- fire, hire, ire, mire, sire, tire, wire
-yre --- gyre, lyre, pyre, tyre
Overlook them --- buyer, liar ; (choir)
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fiery === firey
"or"--- nor, or, pork, torch
"oar"--- boar, hoarse, roar, soar
"ore"--- bore, core, more, sore
Occasionally, with "-aur"(dinosaur).
SR targets --- (four), pour, course, source ; door, floor
"-ure"--- cure, pure
"eur"--- euro
"ewer"--- fewer, skewer
"-oor"--- boor, poor
Overlook them --- tour, tourist
"our"--- flour, hour, our, sour
"-ower"--- flower, power, shower, tower
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