Spelling

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• The most common unstressed vowel sound in English (5)
• A, E, I, O, U, or sometimes Y (5)
• The conventional spelling system of a language (11)
• A competitive gathering of spellers (3)
• A single character of the alphabet (6)

Down

• NASA or SCUBA, for example (7)
• The study of the origin of words (9)
• A word that sounds like another but has a different spelling (9)
• The ability to read and write proficiently (8)
• Board game where you build words for points (8)
• The standard set of letters used to write a language (8)

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