While spelling is not a sign of intelligence, poor spelling can make a bad first impression. Some sounds like sh have multiple spellings. In today’s post I’ll review spelling rules for the sh sound. SH Here are the rules for using s-h to write the sh sound. Use s-h at the beginning of a word or at the end of a syllable. That’s it. Here are some examples: shadow, sheep, shingle, shop, shutter, trashcan, mesh, fishnet, slosh, gush. So, what do you do when the sound comes at the beginning of a syllable in the middle of a word? English is a very creative language with its twenty-six letters. One…
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Hard and Soft Sounds
As a kid I knew the letters ‘c’ and ‘g’ had hard and soft sounds. I just didn’t know there was a rule that would help me. My go-to word was garage. The first ‘g’ was followed by the letter ‘a’ and had a hard sound. The last ‘g’ was followed by an ‘e’ and had a soft sound. Today’s post will discuss spelling and pronunciation rules to help you pronounce new words and spell old ones. Hard C and G The most common sound for the letter ‘c’ is the hard sound. Cat, cost, cut, cry, Christmas, and clip all start with the hard ‘c’ sound. Maniac, titanic, and…
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Things That Fall From the Sky
Precipitation has a specialized vocabulary all its own. Generally speaking, precipitation includes rain, snow, and hail. But each of these has a range of words to describe them. Rain Rain falls from the sky as drops of water. It comes down hard, soft, heavy, and light. Rain has its own specialized vocabulary. It can mist, sprinkle, drizzle, or rain. A light rain is a shower. Heavier rainstorms come in downpours, cloudbursts and torrents. Rain paired with thunder is a thundershower, and is often accompanied by lightning. A rainfall with copious amounts of water is called a deluge and may lead to flash floods. In northern latitudes you may experience freezing…
