Table of Contents

1. Broken Rules and Word Stories 

2. Word Families 

3. Homophones 

4. Mnemonics 

5. Counting Syllables 

6. Affixes 

7. The Spelling Formula 

8. The Difference Between Vowels and Consonants 

9. What Consonants Say 

10. Illegal Letters 

11. The Single Vowels 

12. The Letter ‘y’ 

13. Final Silent E, Jobs 1-3 

14. Job 4 of Silent 'E' (a.k.a. ‘consonant plus–le’) 

15a. The Wicked Sisters and Other Wacky R’s 

15b. More Wacky R's  15c. Final Silent E and Wacky R's 

16. The Vowel Generator 

17. Strong and Weak Syllables 

18. Schwa 

19a. To Double or not to Double? 

19b. When the Final Syllable is Like a 1.1.1 Word 

20. Final Silent E and Suffixes 

21. The return of illegal ‘i’ 

22. The Suffix Generator 

23. More Fascinating Patterns 

24. Some Delightful Lists 

Appendix 1. Forgive me, Scotland 

Appendix 2. The Orders Of Intelligence 

Appendix 3. The Triangle Game 

Appendix 4. Why Not just Make Spelling Simpler?

About the Author

Lyn Stone is a linguist and literacy and language specialist in Victoria, Australia


Lyn's website www.linguistlearning.com provides resources for teachers and other professionals interested in linguistics in the classroom.