Major and Minor vowels

(Correct outlines 2,3,6 conform to Anniversary and Simplifed. ) I find that with my pronunciation, as a dweller in England (especially in the south east), that when Gregg says to omit minor sounding vowels when appropriate I find myself omitting, at first, many ‘e’ vowels towards the end of a word. For example when I…

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Disintegrate

(Sorry this image is a bit unclear. My penmanship and my computer ability are both at fault.) In Anniversary the word disintegrate is written as [1] (in simplified as [2]). I had been looking at my dictionary for another word when I found this odd-looking form for disintegrate. I had never come across that strange…

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