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  2. Easy read - Wikipedia

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    Easy read is a method of presenting written information to make it easier to understand for people with difficulty reading. Easy read advocates sentences of no more than ten to fifteen words, with each sentence having just one idea and one verb. Active sentences are used instead of passive sentences. Easy read is closely edited to express ideas ...

  3. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Ambigram: a word which can be read just as well mirrored or upside down; Blanagram: rearranging the letters of a word or phrase and substituting one single letter to produce a new word or phrase; Letter bank: using the letters from a certain word or phrase as many times as wanted to produce a new word or phrase

  4. English-language spelling reform - Wikipedia

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    In reading such words one must consider the context in which they are used, and this increases the difficulty of learning to read and pronounce English. A closer relationship between phonemes and spellings would eliminate many exceptions and ambiguities, making the language easier and faster to master.

  5. Simplified Spelling Board - Wikipedia

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    The Simplified Spelling Board was an American organization created in 1906 to reform the spelling of the English language, making it simpler and easier to learn, and eliminating many of what were considered to be its inconsistencies. The board operated until 1920, the year after the death of its founding benefactor, who had come to criticize ...

  6. Epenthesis - Wikipedia

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    A limited number of words in Japanese use epenthetic consonants to separate vowels. An example is the word harusame (春雨(はるさめ), 'spring rain'), a compound of haru and ame in which an /s/ is added to separate the final /u/ of haru and the initial /a/ of ame. That is a synchronic analysis.

  7. Initial Teaching Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The ITA originally had 43 symbols, which was expanded to 44, then 45. Each symbol predominantly represented a single English sound (including affricates and diphthongs), but there were complications due to the desire to avoid making the ITA needlessly different from standard English spelling (which would make the transition from the ITA to standard spelling more difficult), and in order to ...

  8. Do you know how to read a nutrition label? Why the FDA ... - AOL

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    That should make it much easier to tell if a product is too high in the nutrients that are worst for you at a glance. In the meantime, an easy (if slightly more tedious) comparison can help you ...

  9. James Pitman - Wikipedia

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    Pitman passionately argued in Parliament to make it easier for kindergarten-aged children to learn to read and write through orthographical and spelling reforms to the English Language. Pitman worked with the similarly minded Labour MP, Mont Follick, to table a series of private members' bills to enable the reforms.