A new online tool helps users to cope with the complex orthography of compound words in English. It is based on an analysis of more than 10,000 words by LMU linguist Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer.

Now, alphabets! What’s that? An alphabetic orthography is one where each phoneme is generally represented by a single grapheme (a term we will simply use for a smaller unit of orthography) or even a ...

Any system of spelling, called orthography, is a set of conventions of how to spell, capitalize, hyphenate, etc. words in a language to make it more understandable. The “rules” of English spelling ...