Enigmas of The English Alphabet

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>This book provides an easy-to-understand guide to the peculiarities of English Pronunciation and Spelling. It was created for students of English as a Second Language.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>It represents each different vocalic sound in the word itself by using a few diacritic symbols. This approach helps to understand the sound of a word directly as it is written and avoids the need to learn it separately using a completely different set of symbols such as the International Phonetic Alphabet which contains more than 150 characters.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)><em>Ī know nôthing in thë world that has as mûch pôwer as ā word. Sômëtīmes Ī wrīte õne and lŏŏk at it ûntil it shīnes.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)><em>- Emily Dickinson </em></strong></p><p></p>