The alphabetic spelling structure employed by the English language is known as English orthography. Similar to other r alphabetic orthographies, English employs a set of customs to symbolize language sounds in characters. Other languages have regular customs, also known as norms. Nevertheless, in English spelling, almost all sounds are spelt in different manners. Also, all letters and nearly all spellings may be articulated in many, diverse manners. Hence, English spelling is said to be irregular because it lacks a one-one-correspondence among letters and sounds (Brengelman, 1970). This is partially as a result of the compound account of the English language, also, as no methodical spelling restructuring has been executed in English, different to circumstances in nearly all other speeches. This paper shall first trace the history of English language, and then show how English lacks a one-one-correspondence among letters and sounds. The paper will end with a conclusion that highlights the key items discussed. Historical Reasons for the Difference between Spelling and Sound The English alphabetic writing structure has its roots in the Roman alphabet, which was initiated by church officials and Christian missionaries to the Anglo-Saxon England (Venezky, 1977). The standard of representing verbal sound fragments, particularly those at the height of vowels and consonants, through written characters, preferably one for every sound fragment form the origin of the Alphabetic writing structure. Vital constituents of the sound flow of a letter are, therefore, arrested by a linear progression of symbols that are capable of being vocalized to evoke the message through its sounds. The whole, sound flow may not be arrested, although a sufficient amount of it offers a stimulus for identification. Being planned for a speech with an extremely dissimilar phonological structure, the Roman alphabet was not precisely tailored for writing English, although it was initially set to symbolize Anglo-Saxon (Rollings, 1998). The initial monks who wrote English by means of Roman letters shortly added other characters to cater for the additional sounds. For instance, the vowel /æ/ of Anglo-Saxon was made to symbolize a, and e, creating a written character known as ash. They too supplemented some runic characters to the alphabet, in order to symbolize consonant sounds lacking in Romance descendents, for instance, eth ð, yogh ȝ, and thorn þ (Venezky, 1977). Afterwards in the medieval era, digraphs, two-letter signs like [th], [gh] and [sh], substituted the runic characters. Letters in the digraphs lack their common values, although they are employed as designates to lone sounds. Orthography can be described as the standards for writing lexis constantly with an alphabetic character set (Venezky, 1977). Constancy in writing was not whole in Anglo-Saxon, since the entire structure was new and standards for writing terms in a steady manner took eras to grow. It is difficult for writers to keep in mind a lone orthographic symbol, known as spelling. However, this is essential for consistency, but for an ideal one-to-one correspondence among graphemes and phonemes, which is a hard perfection for alphabetic structures to meet. Though there lacks a superior match amid sounds and written characters, writers appear to desire creating written shapes, whi