9. An Explanation of the e-speec Rules

In these sections we set out the reasons for the e-speec rules. The rules and the conclusions made here are the result of a detailed analysis of 10,000 commonly-used words:

Long and Short Vowels	Vowels at the End of a Word
c, s and k	s and z
-ed, -d, -t	f, ph, and j, g
x, cs and qu, cw	sh, zh and ch
w, wh and ou	er and or
eer, oi and ng	Doubling of Consonants
Adding e	-ing, -fl, -nes, -abl, -us
Long Vowels in the Middle, Omitting Vowels	The Clayton's Vowel
Proper Nouns and -war

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