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Since Sir Thomas Smith(1514-57) wrote the first printed proposal for English spelling reform (published in 1568), many proposals for English spelling reform have been made during the last 400 years. Educators, philologists, and spelling reformers have joined in the assault on the “antiquated,” “inconsistent,” and “illogical” spelling since English spelling does not fit to a one-letter-one sound system. During last two decades, however, much important work based on Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle's Generative Phonolgy has been done on the study of English orthography and has showed that the spelling-sound correspondences become generally regular when certain graphemic and morphophonemic features such as syllables and stresses are observed even though the correspondences appear to be irregular if only the letters and their pronunciations are considered.
The purpose of this paper is to study the regularity in English spelling-sound system by analyzing the spelling-sound correspondences found in English monosyllables and to make suggestion for its applicability to English teaching, Romanizing Korean personnel names, and future English spelling reform.