Just release is Truespel Book 4 “The Alphabet and Sounds of USA English.”  
The book is a tabular analysis of sound/spelling correspondence as used in 
media context, such as in newspapers.  Thus, word frequency is considered, 
and the resulting count of letter and sound usage in USA English is typical 
of speech as well as writing.

The analysis uses the top 5,000 most frequent words from the Collins Cobuild 
database of English word frequency.  The most frequent word is “the” with 
over a million instances.  The total word instances in the analysis are 15.4 
million.  These words are estimated to make up 90% of usual unspecialized 
media text. (The top 100 words in English make up about 50% of all English 
text.)

The first part of the analysis examines the letters of the alphabet and how 
they are used in USA English.  The second part of the analysis examines the 
sounds of USA English and how they are spelled.  Both these analyses take 
word frequency into account, which is a unique perspective.  A table listing 
the sounds of USA English shows the six most common ways that each sound is 
spelled.  Because the sample is consummate, it is definitive, and the only 
one needed to show major sound spelling correspondence.  In fact, the count 
of how one sound is spelled can be compared to the counts of how other sound 
are spelled, because the data are consummate and thus interrelational.  (For 
example how often the letter “o” spells the “uh” sound can be compared to 
how often the letter “a” spells the “ah” sound.)

The data of this book (Truespel Book 4) can be compared to the data of 
Truespel Book One, which examines the frequency of USA English sounds in the 
60k truespel dictionary.  Thus, word frequency is not examined, whereas in 
Truespel Book 4 it is.

Tom Zurinskas



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