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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 The 4 truespel books are at authorhouse.com. Hit Bookstore. Enter Zurinskas. Click Search. Convert English to truespelUSA at Truespel.com. While there convert the entire internet to truespel via the URL converter by interguru.com.