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English for Medical Purposes:Spelling and Vocabulary
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Category:
Education/Training
Publisher: Virginia Allum
ISBN-10: EnglishforMedicalPurposesSpellingandVocabulary
Pages: 161
Copyright: June 29,2012
ISBN-13: 9781471765629
When reading and writing medical and nursing texts, Health Care Professionals require an understanding of medical, hospital and everyday health terminology.
As well as this, Health Care Professionals need to be able to write fluently in patient notes, in referral letters and when completing care plans or care pathways.
Contents
Glossary of Terms
U.S and British English
Why is it hard to spell in English ?
Silent Letters
Various Spellings for the same sound
Homonyms, Homophones and Homographs
Medical Homonyms
Why bother to spell properly?
Consonant Doubling
Medical Terminology
Apostrophes
Compound Words and Collocations
Plural Words
Uncountable Nouns
Use fo Definite and Indefinite Articles
Use of Capital Letters
Numbers
Prefixes
Suffixes
Common phrases
Glossary of Hospital Terms
Excerpt
Why is it so hard to spell in English?
There are many reasons why English is considered one of the most difficult languages to spell. Here are a few:
English is not a phonetic language. In fact, it is called an ‘orthographically deep’ language because English letters often bear no resemblance to the sounds they represent. Around 90 sounds of English can be spelled in over 200 different ways. This makes spelling very difficult for everyone. The English writing system doesn’t match the sound system. There are too many sounds with not enough letters for each sound. Some sounds are spelled in a very strange way e.g ‘ph’ = ‘f’
There have been many historical changes which have given us a rich language (the upside) which is difficult to spell (the downside). Unfortunately, English has never had an Academy to regulate it and Spelling Reform hasn’t happened either.
English has a lot of ‘empty’ or silent letters. English has borrowed from many languages
over many centuries. Words were adapted and often changed in some way. One of the adaptations was a change in pronunciation sometimes without removing the letter which is no longer pronounced.
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