ABSTRACT
[Abstract: The first of five chapters on strategies for coping with English spelling deals with instances where appealing to morphology helps. For instance, relating definite to finite and definition shows that it is not spelled definate. Historical morphemes often do not change their spelling in derived words. Thus, the terr (from Latin terra meaning “earth”) underlies terrain, terrestrial, etc, and this helps arrive at the correct single and double consonant letters in Mediterranean. However, while there are many such examples, there are also many counterexamples.]
