English orthography

Norms for writing the English language , / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Part of a series on theEnglish language Features Phonology history Grammar Vocabulary Orthography English alphabet Societal aspects History English-speaking world Commonwealth As a second language teaching As a lingua franca Linguistic purism Dialects (full list) American AAVE Southern Australian Bangladeshi British in England Scottish Welsh Cameroonian Canadian Caribbean Antiguan and Barbudan Belizean Trinidadian and Tobagonian Jamaican Fijian Ghanaian Hong Kong Indian Irish Kenyan Liberian Malawian Malaysian Namibian Nepali New Zealand Nigerian Pakistani Philippine Rwandan Sierra Leonean Singapore South African Sri Lankan Ugandan Zimbabwean vte English orthography comprises the set of rules used when writing the English language, allowing readers and writers to associate written graphemes with the sounds of spoken English, as well as other features of the language. English's orthography includes norms for spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation. As with the orthographies of most other world languages, written English is broadly standard