... } "Coop" doesn't clearly fit here, because one spelling has a } hyphen and the other doesn't. But it seems possible that } the "cooperative" sense may have at one time been spelled } the same and pronounced with two

"Coax", like "unionized", is one of the few spellings with multiple readings that have different numbers of syllables Looking over the rec.puzzles archive homograph list, I think I find 19: agape {wide open; form of love} ai

Some unknown number of people maybe most people like to pronounce "Celtic" ('kEltIk). What that remark lacks is a dash of humour to show that the writer *knows* it's absurd. "Some" indeed! "Like to" indeed! Of

Don't try it with words taken from Italian with no change in the spelling, e.g. focaccia. Fortunately, the Italian rule is simpler: before e or i, c or cc is /tS/; elsewhere, it's /k/. There are a couple of exceptions: soccer &

A spelling tip: words like table and noble have what the Americans call a long vowel (tay, noh). Isn't it diphtongs? Spelling tip number two... Diphthongs has more Hs than you'd expect. Maybe you could visualize some "different

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That's a spelling mistake, not a grammar mistake. It's a grammatical error in the same way that "didn't wanted to" is a grammatical error. It would be the same if "didn't wanted to" was pronounced the same as

Perceiving "used to" to be a modal verb leads ... used to" and "I use to" in a past sense. That's a spelling mistake, not a grammar mistake. It's a grammatical error in the same way that "didn't wanted

How do I seem to have fallen into that trap? Clearly, they would be effectively two different words. Your use of "would be" instead of "are" reveals that you evidently still don't understand the true meanings of "used

Donna Richoux: Richard Fontana: That was and is the majority usage. But "nine eleven" was occasionally heard. And hence the practice in some quarters of spelling it "9-1-1", in case some caller who uses that pronunciation is