English language obscured by a closer correspondence between pronunciation and spelling, for example the words "photograph", "photography", and "photographic", or the words "electricity" and "electrical". While few scholars agree with Chomsky and Halle (1968) that conventional English orthography is "near-optimal", there is a rationale for current English spelling patterns. The standard orthography of English is the most widely used writing system in the world. Standard English spelling is based on a graphomorphemic segmentation of words into written clues of what meaningful units make up each word. Readers of English can generally rely on the correspondence between spelling and pronunciation to be fairly
This Is What the Truth Feels Like outside the top 10. The following week, "This Is What the Truth Feels Like" dipped 54 positions, the week's largest drop. In Australia, the album debuted at number six, becoming her third consecutive top-ten solo album. "This Is What the Truth Feels Like" was the week's second highest debut, and was present for two weeks before departing the chart. On France's SNEP albums chart, it entered at number 44, becoming her lowest debut behind "The Sweet Escape"s peak at number 33. The album fared moderately well on Switzerland's Hitparade, where it became her second highest performing album, peaking at number