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English Spelling and Pidgin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Valerie Yule
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Abstract

English has had centuries of ‘traditional orthography’, but novel varieties of English have no orthography at all until it is created for them. How are these spelling systems developed and how close to, or distant from, ‘real’ spelling need they be?

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Research Article
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English Today , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , July 1988, pp. 29 - 35
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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