Dear Professor Takeshi Okada
The Collins COBUILD English Guides 8: SPELLING
written by Jonathan Payne, of which I was the editor,
contained a chart of the 24 main vowel sounds
and the 24 main consonant sounds, and their commonest
spelling patterns. For each sound-spelling pair,
the most frequent realizations in the Cobuild
Bank of English corpus are listed as examples.
The sound-spelling pairs are given for word-initial,
word-medial, and word-final positions.
I hope this helps.
Ramesh
Ramesh Krishnamurthy
Consultant, Cobuild and Bank of English Corpus,
Collins Dictionaries.
Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Corpus Linguistics,
English Department, University of Birmingham.
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