Twain took the true people he based his characters on and embellished on their dialect so that every character sounds and speaks a bit differently. ... He speaks in slang, slur, and contractions, and leaves out words and replaces them with similar sounding fabricated ones. ... Twain wrote Jims dialogue almost like the way things were to be sounded out to someone learning how to talk. ... He wrote this book for each person to take it in separately. ... He does not want people to treat this book as many other classics and follow the crowd's opinion, but as a book that describes the past...

• Word Count: 2082
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

This automatically means that there must be a mismatch between the spellings and sounds of words simply because there are not nearly enough letters to spell each sound. ... In the same way different sounds can be created from the same spelling, different spellings can be used to create the same sound. ... sound even if it is included in the spelling. ... Craigie in his book English Spelling Its Rules And Reasons states: "English has adopted a large number of words from languages spoken in various parts of the world with which it has no linguistic affinity...In the spelling of such words the...

• Word Count: 2069
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A standardised spelling was developing which was divorced from the phonetic environment so that sound and spelling were becoming two separete systems. ... Therefore were the "spelling-reformers" first to appear on the scene, beginning with a book in Latin by Sir Thomas Smith, entitled: De recta et emendata Linguae Anglicanae Scriptione (1568). Soon followed on the same subject by John Hart An Orthographie (1569), William Bullokar and Richard Mulcaster's book The right writing of our English tung (1582), Simon Daines Orthoepia Anglicana (1640). ... From the beginning London has b...

• Word Count: 1558
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This book tells about his life growing up in America, and it tells a lot about the discrimination he dealt with growing up. ... This book is good in helping non-minorities understand what minorities do go through, and it helped me understand some of the different things they endure. ... The word minority is sometimes used to sound like a bad thing. ... I think his book did a good job of portraying to the reader how it actually was for him and his family. ... Through reading this book I understand somewhat more of what minorities in our country have to go through. ...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

For example, The Pronunciation Book by Bowen & Marks or 'Sound Foundations' by Adrian Underhill seem very different from a book such as Ship and Sheep by Baker. ... " Achieving Intelligibility can be carried out through segmental (individual sounds) or suprasegmental (features of speech which extend over more than one sound segment in an utterance, such as a pitch, stress or juncture pattern) approach. ...

• Word Count: 2008
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Anna and Elena (2009) deduced that using English as a lingua Franca leads to the increase in the use of technology, even though it sounds unrealistic. ... It has become a habit that most manual book, which carries directory or instruction information on how to operate technical devices are written in English. ... Money on the other hand is also saved, as no need for a lot of book translation. ...

• Word Count: 1375
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Before this book, he published many articles about American English and the history of lexicography. ... Where else can a noun such as chicken so easily become an adjective and still sound pointy'? ... This book certainly should not be judged its cover "or its title for that matter. ...

• Word Count: 1617
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Note that the author of the book, Ding Ling, was one of the most popular writers in the 20th century. ... The only problem is that, however, between 1887 and 1931, there is no related data in the Google Book and CNKI. ... Although this sounds irresponsible, it is how the word "cool" was translated as "酷(ku)" in the first place. ... Based on the data from the Google Book Ngram Viewer, the usage of English version of "hysteria" reached its peak between 1910 and 1920, during which the word was a very political word, mainly used as a synonym of "insanity"...

• Word Count: 1679
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

According to the book I was an average baby. I didn't have any trouble developing certain skills, if anything it was the opposite, I grew up quickly; especially that I was toilet trained at age one which would sound weird to others. ...

• Word Count: 1387
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School