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Breaking the spell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Keith Davidson
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Abstract

Notes on regularities in the writing system of ‘the global language’, which both review Diane McGuinness, ‘Why Children Can't Read’ (1998), and comment on Christopher Upward, ‘In defence of spelling reform’ (ET57, Jan 99)

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Research Article
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English Today , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , July 1999 , pp. 3 - 11
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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