Some Spelling Rules: Part 3 ti, ci and si are three spellings most frequently used to say sh at the beginning of all syllables except the first. e.g. national, patient, palatial, infectious. gracious, ancient, musician, fiancial. session, admission, mansion, division. Exceptions: ship as a suffix, e.g. worship. i comes before e when it is pronounced ee, except when it follows c – or when sounding like a as in neighbour, or weigh. e.g. brief, field, priest. receive, deceive, ceiling. Exceptions: neither, foreign, sovereign, seized, counterfeit, forfeited, leisure. all and well followed by another syllable only have one l. e.g. also, already, although, welcome, welfare. full and till joined to another root syllable, drop one l. e.g. useful, cheerful, until. Almost no English words end in v and none in j. Since publishing this page on the Web, Alistair Ewan of the University of East Anglia has reminded us of the word spiv. For words ending in a single l after a single vowel, double the l before adding a suffix, regardless of accent. e.g. cancelled, traveller, signalling, metallic. If a word of more than one syllable ends in a t, preceded by a single vowel, and has the accent on the last syllable, then double the final consonant. e.g. permit; permitted. admit; admitted. regret; regretted. But, if the accent is on the first syllable, don’t double the t. e.g. visit; visited. benefit; benefited ous at the end of a word often means full of. e.g. famous: full of fame. glorious; full of glory. gracious, ridiculous, furious, dangerous.
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