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Few Celtic words have survived in English. A few are: banshee ...
The Spelling Scholar PowerPoint Presentation
1/12/13
The Spelling Scholar: Is It Greek? Is It La7n? What’s the Root? The History of People
What should be taught? Dispelling the Myth
Three Layers
and Their Words
Alphabetic Layer
The Anglo-‐Saxons The Vikings
Eileen Mattmann Rosanne Cowan
www.spellingscholar.com
• mostly have to do with twisting
• kn,
gn and other silent letters were originally pronounced and have their roots in German.
• ed used to be pronounced and still is in words like
wretched,
Sound/letter relationship
Homophones, contractions, affixes, Greek and Latin Word Parts
The Celts Few Celtic words have survived in English. A few are: banshee, bard, blarney, bog, bother, brat, caddy, cairn, crag, dour, bag, galore, glen, hooligan, shanty, slogan, smithereens, spunk, swap, whisky
Celts
Celtic
rugged, and ragged.
• tw has to do with two: twin, twice, twelve, twenty,
twine (two or more twisted strands)
100 CE
1000 BCE ?
1500 CE
Middle English
Old English
Enter the Angles and Saxons
Rome: 43-‐410 CE
Former outpost troops now invade England
and push the Celts back. Angles, Saxons,
Latin is used by Romans, early Church Romans
Jutes, Danes Latin
Celtic
Romans King Arthur Legend
1000 BCE?
1000 CE
500 CE
Celts
Meaning/Origin
Spelling patterns, rules and inflected endings
One sound
Irregular
34%
Meaning Layer
Ideas for Instruction
• wr words
Sound/Letter 50%
Pattern Layer
The Norman French Greek and Latin
Pa?erns Affected by Word Origin
4% 12%
100 CE
Chaucer
1000 CE
500 CE
Old English
© 2009, Mattmann and Cowan
Shakespeare
1500 CE
Middle English
Celts
Latin
Celtic
Anglo-Saxon, Danish
King Arthur Legend
1000 BCE ?
100 CE
1000 CE
500 CE
Old English
1500 CE
Middle English
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The Spelling Scholar PowerPoint Presentation
1/12/13
Finding and Reading Etymologies What: The etymology of a word traces the word through time and shows the changes a word has undergone. mask [
