It's true.  A-S words are usually one-syllable, with lots of vowel digraphs making them hard to spell for youngsters.  The A-Ss were generally illiterate farmers, and their workaday words reflected their life -- words like laugh, farm, truck,

Studies of languages have shown that any given language will compensate for complexity in one area with simplicity in another and that if you compare any two languages that they have roughly the same number of complex and simple areas. Consider

where the word has another feature, <img src="/emoticons/emotion-67.gif" alt="Camera " />, <img src="/emoticons/emotion-56.gif" alt="Sleep " />, , <img src="/emoticons/emotion-65.gif" alt="Kiss " />, = NON (Non-Venerial) , , ,

A.u.e: Does anyone else have these two different "-ire"s? Consciously or unconsciously? With the same distribution as mine or different? When I come to think about it, it appears that words in your first list are slightly shorter sounds.

Dear all, I have some questions about how words are divided in dictionary entries. It seems to be an arbitrary business. Not entirely arbitrary, but certainly complicated. The Chicago Style Manual is an American source for rules, if I remember