Morrison's Sound-It-Out Speller (SPLR) - Hardcover

McRann, Penelope Kister; Morrison, Marvin L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0967806801 ISBN 13: 9780967806808

Publisher: Stone Cloud Phonics, 2001

Synopsis

Morrison confesses to being a poor speller who apparently has passed the trait on to his and McRann's children, so he wanted a reference by which people could look up the spelling of a word they knew only how to pronounce. His system is to sound out the word as closely as possible, then drop the vowels, leaving a skeleton of consonants. SPLR, for example, is his version of speller. When necessary he puts a word under both G and J; and C is banished for ambiguity, replaced by either S or K. He gives brief, usually one-word, definitions, particularly to distinguish between words that sound the same but are spelled differently. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

From the Author:

As well as assisting the poor speller, this book also encourages independent vocabulary development. This book is the place to go to when spell-check software is not enough.

About the Author:

Marvin L. Morrison was born in Montgomery, AL, in 1940. In 1981 he self-published "Word City" which in 1987 was revised and became "Word Finder." And now with this "Complete Edition" the system is greatly expanded and contains "hints" through out. Morrison understands that one usually doesn't choose lexicogrophy as a possible profession, it ususlly chooses you.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stone Cloud Phonics
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0967806801
• ISBN 13: 9780967806808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1088