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How are you getting on over there? Covid deaths on island nations
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How are you getting on over there? Covid deaths on island nations

Posted on August 17, 2021August 17, 2021 by A2dez

Part 1. Pre-vaccination. Jan 2020 – April 2021     Back in early April, when people in Ireland still couldn’t sit down for a cup…

The vowel spellings of English monosyllables
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The vowel spellings of English monosyllables

Posted on April 30, 2021August 17, 2021 by A2dez

  Warning: This is a first draft, so bear with me. Busy busy.  The plot is busy. Very very busy. That’s because English spelling is…

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Posted on April 5, 2020 by A2dez

coronavirus_death_rates_5-4-2020

Letters, syllables, and letters per syllable
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Letters, syllables, and letters per syllable

Posted on December 29, 2019April 27, 2021 by A2dez

During the autumn I was engaged in a machine-learning project, trying to predict pronunciation from English spelling, but I took the uncharted approach of seeing…

Number of letters in each syllable versus the stress pattern
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Number of letters in each syllable versus the stress pattern

Posted on November 9, 2019December 28, 2019 by A2dez

This is just a short note from some graphs I’ve been creating this week: The above plot shows like 60,000 bisyllabic words and names of…

Blogwriting a book about English spelling
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Blogwriting a book about English spelling

Posted on December 10, 2018December 10, 2018 by A2dez

I have a decade’s worth of thoughts on English spelling and I will be blogwriting them here as an e-book of sorts. This post discusses…

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Positive Procrastination

Posted on November 26, 2018November 26, 2018 by A2dez

26 November 2018, 1120 A tiny bug in my laptop allows me to see what time I was last using it. So when I flipped…

Synchronised spelling
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Synchronised spelling

Posted on June 14, 2018April 27, 2021 by A2dez

The word synchronise is often shortened to a single syllable which sounds like sink, but whose spelling varies between <sync> and <synch>. This variability introduces us to…

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