English orthography is the system of writing conventions used to represent spoken English in written form that allows readers to connect spelling to sound to meaning. Like the orthography of most world languages, English has a broad degree of standardization. However, unlike most languages, there are multiple ways to spell nearly every phoneme (sound), and most letters have multiple pronunciations depending on their position in a word and the context. Several orthographic mistakes are common even among native speakers. This is mainly due to the large number of words that have been borrowed from a large number of other languages throughout the history of the English language without successful attempts at complete spelling reforms. Most of the spelling conventions in Modern English were der