The loss of gender classes was part of a general decay of inflectional endings and declensional classes by the end of the 14th century. Late 14th-century London English had almost completed the shift away from grammatical gender, and Modern English retains no morphological agreement of words with grammatical gender.

Gender-neutral or gender-inclusive language is more than a matter of political correctness. Using gender-fair and inclusive language also helps reduce gender stereotyping, promotes social change and contributes to achieving gender equality.

Genderless languages include the Indo-European languages Armenian, Bengali, Persian, Zemiaki and Central Kurdish (Sorani Dialect), all the modern Turkic languages (such as Turkish) and Kartvelian languages (including Georgian), Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and most Austronesian languages (such as the Polynesian languages …

We now have more than 60% borrowed vocabulary (so more vocabulary is borrowed than isn’t), and this also acted as a catalyst for sound changes (mostly the Great Vowel Shift) that drastically changed English pronunciation (and also made English spelling so different from other European languages).

English has more phonemes than many languages, with around 44, depending on which variety of English you speak. It has an unusually large set of vowel sounds—there are around 11. Two sounds, those represented by the “th” in “bath” and “bathe” respectively, are found in fewer than 10% of the languages surveyed in WALS.

Steps for Explicit, Systematic Teaching of Tricky Words

1. Step 1: Read the tricky word to the student(s), then read it together.
2. Step 2: Identify the regular letter-sound-correspondences in the word.
3. Step 3: Identify the ‘tricky’ bit.

Learn the most English common words first….English Nouns

1. People. People (and the singular ‘person’) is a basic English word for someone learning the basics of the language.
2. Thing.
3. Time.
4. Day.
5. Man.
6. Woman.
7. Child.

5. THERE WERE TWO WINNERS ON SIX OCCASIONS. Co-champions have long been a possibility at the National Spelling Bee, and were a reality in 1950, 1957, 1962, 2014, 2015, and 2016, when 11-year-old Nihar Janga of Austin, Texas, and 13-year-old Jairam Hathwar of Corning, New York, both walked away winners.

Yes, the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee will take place on Thursday, July 8, at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida and will be broadcast in primetime on ESPN2.

Third place went to Mary Gilliland, 13, of Fort Worth, Texas ($250 prize), who failed to properly spell eudaemonic in the 23rd round. Jolitta Schlehuber placed fourth, but returned to win the next year. The competition lasted from 9 am until 6:55 pm, and was the longest in the competition’s history.

Phillip Gleason

5-6 year olds will learn to spell simple, common CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words. Once children are listening carefully and have a good understanding of sound-letter correspondence they will begin attempting simple CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) when writing.

Indian Americans have won every Scripps National Spelling Bee since 2008, a reign that is the result of a confluence of factors — feel-good documentaries that inspired future spellers, a culture invested in competitive spelling and parental investment in a child’s educational success.

Karthik Nemmani

Every year, hundreds of kids across the country come together to compete for the coveted honor of being the best speller in America. Many of these winners go on to have future success. Some even return to the Spelling Bee to work there as adults. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories.

V, or v, is the 22nd and fifth-to-last letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

V means “Very”.

According to dictionary.com, the reason is history. Most buildings that encompass Roman-style architecture use the Latin alphabet, which only had 23 letters at one time, not including the letter U. The “U” sound still existed, but it was represented with the letter V.

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