Re: Gweydr and English Lax Vowels
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 1, 2009, 0:02 |
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On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:57 PM, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
> On an English note, it occurred to me: I don't recall learning this
> rule about consonant doubling in school (e.g. sin > sinning, not
> sining). Since it's a purely orthographic rule, though, I would
> have *had* to have learned it in school (if not there, where else?).
Or you might have unconsciously inferred it from
all the text you read, whether for school or on your
own. I don't remember the details of my elementary
school lessons clearly enough to say for sure, but
I suspect the majority of what I know about
English orthography I picked up osmotically by
reading a lot, not through formal lessons.
--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/