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Book by Jones, Thomas Baldwin
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After tutoring dozens of language students from first grade through graduate school, Dr. Jones perceived a need for an ordered, comprehesive guide to this endeavor, a sort of teacher's manual which might ensure thorougness, logical progression and a general overview of our marvelous language, English. There would need to be an exhaustive investigation of the phonetic nature of the language along with near exhaustive word lists for documentation and practice. One does not write such a tract off the top of one's head, so Dr. Jones went through his favorite family dictionary marking all Latin derivations in red, Greek inBlue and Old English with marginal notes. Words beginning with mis-, ambi- or endo-, words containing -ai-, -eu- or -du-, words ending in -tion, -ciate- or -que, words showing various pronunciations of a, ou or i and so on were noted until the index card stack exceeded eighteen inches in height. To insure some intellectual order to this material, Dr. Jones savored university classes in Latin, Greek, French, German, History of English, Linguistics, Phonology, Structure of English, Comparative Grammar, Language Disabilities and Black English Vernacular. Over a seven year period Decoding and Encoding English Words: A Handbook for Language Tutors gradually assumed its present form.
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