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>>Skills in orthography vary tremendously among people of comparable intelligence. Should the "less gifted ones" be punished?
>As a high school English teacher it was a real problem, more so than spelling.
I'm sorry, but this came across to me as "orthography skills were more of a problem than spelling", which just has me shaking my head.
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You mean this?
orthography –noun, plural -phies for 3–5.
1. the art of writing words with the proper letters, according to accepted usage; correct spelling.
synonymous? confusing.
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orthography
The flip side, orthoepy, was real big in the rhetorical 19th century. (BTW, it's a good Dutch word, too: orthografie, pretty much synonymous with spelling.)
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Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Yes we have in fact the choice of exactly the same words, but frankly in school we simply only used spelling, which saved us from confusing it with ornithology. We used aardrijkskunde, not geografie.
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>>Skills in orthography vary tremendously among people of comparable intelligence. Should the "less gifted ones" be punished?
>As a high school English teacher it was a real problem, more so than spelling.
I'm sorry, but this came across to me as "orthography skills were more of a problem than spelling", which just has me shaking my head.
-joe (metaphorically speaking) friday
Did it help??
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i am not sure i understand the change--our old rule was "i before e except after c, or when sounded as a, as in neighbor or weigh" so two of their exceptions aren't exceptions. Most of us also memorized the most common exceptions along with the rule--either, neither, foreign, forfeit, height, leisure or seize.
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I think the point is how many exceptions to a rule does it take before it's not really a rule?
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