All scripts use the same alphabet, but conventional spellings may vary from phase to phase.

It concludes (using the conventional spellings of his day):

He knew how to read, but his imagination tended to go blank when challenged to produce an essay, and he had never mastered conventional spelling.

Although it succeeded in its own terms, the advantages were lost when children transferred to conventional spelling and after several decades the experiment was discontinued.

Writing was phonetic; the letters represented the sounds and not conventional spellings.

Let's play a variant on the task, and trnslt the following baby names into their conventional spellings.

"Of course, you want kids to get conventional spelling," she said.

There are also sight words that do not follow patterns; children need to memorize conventional spellings for these words, such as who.

At the time, Ford adopted a more conventional spelling of his middle name.