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The moment we begin writing in English we are immediately shocked by the discrepancy between the writing system and the pronunciation, which makes its orthography far from phonemic. We get mad seeing that a single phoneme may be represented by a number of spellings, for example /f/ may be represented by f (fill), ph (philosophy) or gh (enough). Vowels can present even more of a problem. On the other hand, some people point out that in spite of all these inconsistencies in the spelling-pronunciation relationship, it is possible to master English spelling quickly by role-memorizing it. Nevertheless, we should realize that being able to spell and pronounce a given word does not mean knowing it. Even if we know the meaning of it, still it is not enough. In addition,