Fern Spelling Dictionary

two changes at once

keilantes

Two Greek letters have gone missing at once: ch and th.

heard keilanteswritten cheilanthes3 of 11 positions differtwo changes at once

two changes at once

Both of the h's in cheilanthes are doing the same job. Each marks a Greek letter that Latin could not write with one character, so it used two. Take the h out of ch and you have written the k sound honestly. Take it out of th and you have written the t sound honestly. Both are honest and both are wrong, and the word needs its h's because it is being copied out of another alphabet rather than spelled from scratch.

The class

Two separate decisions about the letters, both made at once.

Same name

The name