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What is Homograph

International Approaches to Bridging the Language Gap
A word which has the same spelling as another but differs in derivation and meaning or pronunciation.
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The Spelling Gap in English: Economy of Rules and Resolution of Puzzles
Blasius Achiri-Taboh (University of Buea, Cameroon)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1219-7.ch014
Abstract
Spelling is a major item on the topic of language gap. Since the 1950s, English spelling has been an attraction to scholars. What this implies is that there is need for increased research on rules of spelling in the language. This chapter examines how the rule for choosing between -tion and -sion works in a bid to render it more economical as one way of bridging the language gap. Specifically, it is demonstrated that base-words that take the t-form have a smaller set of conditions that can more easily be mastered than do those that take the s-form, thus forestalling the latter.
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