{"id":1470,"date":"2024-03-10T01:53:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T01:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2024-03-10T01:54:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T01:54:30","slug":"5-words-5-lessons-0-phonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/5-words-5-lessons-0-phonics\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Words, 5 Lessons, 0 Phonics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-09-at-7.49.44-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1471 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-09-at-7.49.44-PM-1024x556.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-09-at-7.49.44-PM-1024x556.png 1024w, https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-09-at-7.49.44-PM-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-09-at-7.49.44-PM-768x417.png 768w, https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-09-at-7.49.44-PM-1536x834.png 1536w, https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-09-at-7.49.44-PM-2048x1112.png 2048w, https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-09-at-7.49.44-PM-1200x652.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I had the pleasure to meet the winners of the 2024 Madison All-City Spelling Bee and to share some thoughts on English spelling at a recent event with the Madison Rotary Club. We cannot understand English spelling if we believe that it is mainly about matching 44 sounds to 26 letters. I enjoyed illustrating how grammar, history, politics, language contact, and, yes, human error are contributing to the joys and vexations tied to the English spelling system. The 5 words mentioned in the title were <em>sign<\/em> (spelling ties words of the sign family, including signify and designate, together), <em>name<\/em> (spelling reflects pronunciation before the Great Vowel Shift), <em>too<\/em> (spelling differentiates high frequency homophones), <em>isle<\/em> (spelling reflexed what people believed to be the etymology) and <em>masheen<\/em> (spelling reflects reform efforts, which, alas, did not come through in this case).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I had the pleasure to meet the winners of the 2024 Madison All-City Spelling Bee and to share some thoughts on English spelling at a recent event with the Madison Rotary Club. We cannot &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,45],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-outreach","tag-spelling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}