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Theme 1K
Learning from the Spelling of < love >
Summary
Ability to spell and to understanding the reasons for spellings is a mode of thinking; orthography is cognitive and every engagement with it is a thinking activity. Real spellers know that uninformed mechanical ‘correctness’ has no equivalence with understanding; we learn from words whose spelling we already know because they are a rich and productive source of evidence for determining how the system really works.
This theme explains:
- that there is much to learn from single words even when we are quite sure how to write them;
- that complete English words do not have final < v >;
- that < uv > is not an allowable letter sequence in English words — < ov > is used instead;
- that only suffixes that have an initial vowel letter replace a final single non-syllabic < e >.
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