Talk a Lot Clear Alphabet Dictionary Words that Look Confusing in the Clear Alphabet It’s difficult to understand a word in the Clear Alphabet when it looks like a word written in normal spelling Here are some examples of words in the Clear Alphabet that look like normal English words This can happen when a syllable with a single phoneme is represented by one letter, e.g O f = “offer”, but looks like the word “of” It is especially true of items that have embedded schwa sounds – which are not shown in the Clear Alphabet It also often occurs with diphthongs such as and ei and long vowel sounds, e.g eir and or If you are working with the Clear Alphabet, you need to learn to think differently – in sounds and syllables rather than letters and words Can you find any more examples like the ones below? Normal Spelling: CA Spelling: Other English word that it looks like: cider reader Sai d Ree d said reed farmer summer Far m Su m farm sum jumper slipper Jum p Sli p jump slip letter matter porter Le t Ma t Por t let mat port figure offer pasta winner Fi g Of Pa st Wi n fig of past win line mile pint ride side while white wine Lain Mail Paint Raid Said Wail Wait Wain lain mail paint raid said wail wait wain nail Neil Neil nothing since suit Nu tting Sins Soot nutting sins soot pence tense Pens Tens pens tens walk ward warm Work Word Worm work word worm wear Weir weir Talk a Lot Clear Alphabet Dictionary English Banana.com 168 Talk a Lot Clear Alphabet Dictionary Words that Look Confusing in the Clear Alphabet The following Clear Alphabet spellings of words from the dictionary all look similar to or have elements of other words with normal spellings: Normal Spelling: CA Spelling: Other English word that it looks like: beside climb egg fight lake liver loud main mineral water mobile next to performer pizza singular form solicitor spider stretcher sunbathing super supporter teacher toward trainer turbulence Twitter voter waiter walkabout water b Said Klaim Eg Fait Leik Li v Laud Mein Min rl wor t Meu bail Ne kst p For m Pee_ ts Sing gy l form s Li s t Spai d Stre ch Sun bei thing Soo p s Por t Tee ch t Word Trei n Ter by lns Twi t Veu t Wei t Wor k baut Wor t said claim e.g fate like live laud mein – German for “my” wort bail next perform/form Pete's gy looks like it should be soft, like the suffix list paid stretch thing soup port/support teach word train Talk a Lot Clear Alphabet Dictionary by twit vote wait work wort English Banana.com 169