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has gloss | eng: In English spelling, the three letter rule (or short word rule) is the observation that one- and two-letter words tend to be function words such as I, at, he, if, of, or, etc. As a consequence of the rule, "content words" tend to have at least three letters. In particular, content words containing fewer than three phonemes may be augmented with letters which are phonetically redundant, such as ebb, add, egg, inn, bee, see, awe, buy, owe, etc. |
lexicalization | eng: Three letter rule |
lexicalization | eng: Three-letter rule |
instance of | c/English spelling |
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