And I dont mean of we were logically talking about the language etymologically, I mean words that make sense on your brain with a different spelling. Unreasonable stupid spellings.
For me:
- Colledge for college
- Occean for ocean
- Pation for passion
These were mistakes I made as a kid and I get it
Drop the letter C, and reformat everything to be phonetic.
As a general rule, all 'C’s should make a ‘Ch’ sound and leave ‘S’ and ‘K’ the fuck alone.
Is that how the c in your username is pronounced?
It’s pronounced however you want, baby.
The word yacht or the way it is pronounced.
The “dk” in your title should probably be spelled “do.”
Colonel needs an R in it, or to be pronounced co-lo-nel instead of ker-nel.
Perfect post to have a typo in.
Also ‘in’ your brain, not ‘on’ it
There’s an interesting history behind the word colonel. IIRC, the English “coronel” and the French “colonel” used to be used somewhat interchangeably. Eventually, we kept the French spelling but the English pronunciation.
I have to look up the spelling of “necessary” every time. Just make is nessessary.
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Yeah this one I get too
Possessive is normally done with an apostrophe. The dog’s toy. The apartment’s lobby.
But when possessive goes on the pronoun “it”? No apostrophe.
Look out for the monster. Its fangs are sharp.
If you put an apostrophe, that’s for “it is”.
This bothers me slightly. There’s history illinonating why it happened, but I don’t like it.
You mean like his and her?
Possessive pronouns don’t use apostrophes.
Webster tried to reform English, and was a reason for a number of the American English changes from British English. Some of his changes caught on, like “public” for “publick” or “jail” for “gaol”.
But others did not.
I think that some of those ones that didn’t catch on would be good candidates.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53723/26-noah-webster’s-spelling-changes-didn’t-catch
E.g. “Island” to “Iland”.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/noah-websters-spelling-wins-and-fails
Or “is” to “iz”.
Oh thats interesting
I just wish we would consolidate on 5 letter words ending with EL and LE as to what the order should be.
Why is it “table” and “label”? They’re basically the same word minus the first letter, but the spellings are different. I hate it.
I get this. I like it
Subtel?
Cannible?
Baesball?
You are right, it’s a mess :)
Queue needs more voweis
The number of extra “ue” should be proportional to the number of people in the queue. Ex: “Oh no, there’s a queue” “Could be worse, could be a queueueue”
Lmao I love that
It’s English. First it’s needed to make the spelling and sounding uniform.
read read red dread
Tough though through
Tough thoughts, though thorough throughout.
There are so many silent letters in English, quite confusing
