What's your point? I made an implicit point: it is not cognitively productive to remember pronounciation for every word. What learners should be taught: a set of heuristics to find possible pronunciations for a word. Mastery of phonetics (or

Hi, Could you please check my reflection for grammar and vocabulary mistakes? For a number of months I have been studying word families. In addition to this, I have also been dissecting words for prefixes, suffixes, consonant blends and digraphs,

Could you please check my reflection for grammar and vocabulary mistakes? For a number of months I have been studying word families. In addition to this, I have also been dissecting words for prefixes, suffixes, consonant blends and digraphs, as

Typical Greek suffixes. Primary stress on the third syllable from the end. (First vowel shown may vary.) ocracy, opathy, otony, otany, otomy, ophony, ology, onomy, otrophy, ogamy, ography, ophany, osophy, ognomy, ogony, omaly,

I came across your string of messages just after writing to my former Turkish teacher on this subject. May I cut and paste? While editing a legal handbook, I was confronted a few times with a "whilst" that didn't sound right to my ear. After a