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Definition of Nonphonetic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonphonetic
Literary usage of Nonphonetic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Teaching Children to Be Literate: A Reflective Approach by Anthony V. Manzo, Ula Casale Manzo (1995)
"Scribbling • Drawing • nonphonetic lettering • Phonetic (but not ... Because of
the large number of English words that have nonphonetic spellings, ..."
2. Building Spelling Skills: Grade 2 by Evan-Moor Educational Publishing, Jo Ellen Moore (2002)
"Students need to be taught the following: • how to spell words that are created
using English phonemes, as well as common nonphonetic words • strategies to ..."
3. The Spell-to-write Spelling Books by Ambrose Leo Suhrie, Robert Philip Koehler (1922)
"(5) Teacher writes elsewhere on the blackboard the nonphonetic elements necessary
to rebuild the words— that is, the parts which have been erased. ..."
4. On the Polyphony of the Assyrio-Babylonian Cuneiform Writing: A Letter to by Edward Hincks (1863)
"Nor can it be truly alleged that it is here a nonphonetic determinative ; for we .
<v»\*X. find it occurring in the ^Iti^. ki-va, after the name of the ..."
5. Literary Disorders: Holistic Diagnosis and Remediation by Ula C. Manzo, Anthony V. Manzo (1993)
"According to an earlier account by Boder (1970), spelling of unknown words tends
to be totally nonphonetic ..."
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