Using this book vi // Acknowledgements vii // 1 Speaking and writing 1 // 2 Finding phonemes 6 // 3 Long and short vowel pairs 13 // 4 Marking vowel length 17 // 5 Complications in length marking 22 // 6 Some consonant spellings 28 // 7 Some vowel spellings 31 // 8 Look-alikes and sound-alikes 33 // 9 Sound-alike affixes 40 // 10 The spelling of names 48 // 11 Rules and mistakes 53 // 12 More than letters 60 // 13 American and British spelling 64 // 14 Spelling reform 67 // Answers to exercises 73 // Further reading 94 // Index 96