Photographer (stress on the second "o").On a second thought, there might be cases where we can check our use of a vowel letter logically in English: In a check word, the stress falls on the suspected vowel, and it becomes clear that it's e (in "лес" "les") and hence it's not и in the instrumental case (in "в л есу"), despite the fact that we tend to pronounce it like и ("vl ee-soo", "in the forest", with the stress on the final syllable). Hence, in Russian it is possible to fall back on finding a "check word" to ascertain what vowel letter should be written down. Russian is a " fusional" language: one root can generate a multitude of words in many forms - nouns, adjectives, verbs. Hence, the morphological forms for "The forest was dark" and "She walked in the forest" are just "forest", and you would be hard put finding a check word with the same "forest" root if you wanted to ascertain what vowel letter should be used in writing. English is an " analytic" language: "a language that conveys grammatical relationships without using inflectional morphemes".
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