Semantics Tips

Various tips to help with spelling and vocabulary will be added periodically.

Contents:

  2   -   Akeelah and the Bee - study list

  3   -   "awzh" sound <French

  4   -   mnemonic device (geography)

  5   -   "f" sound <Greek

  6   -   double-v

  7   -   "waw" sound <French

  8   -   compound words

  9   -   "sh" sound <German

10   -   "y" to "i"

11   -   ends with the "uhs" sound

12   -   "seed" words 

13   -   eponyms

14   -   "y" is the only vowel 

15   -   the suffix "-eous"

16   -   Is it assimilated?

17   -   "q" no "u"

18   -   "v" sound <German or Dutch