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
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.
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.
Subtel?
Cannible?
Baesball?
You are right, it’s a mess :)
I get this. I like it
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
Queue needs more voweis
As a general rule, all 'C’s should make a ‘Ch’ sound and leave ‘S’ and ‘K’ the fuck alone.
Nah, CH should be tsh, we need a new letter for SH, and maybe C could be the kh sound like in loch
Is that how the c in your username is pronounced?
It’s pronounced however you want, baby.
It’s English. First it’s needed to make the spelling and sounding uniform.
read read red dread
Tough though through
Red dead redemption
Tough thoughts, though thorough throughout.
There are so many silent letters in English, quite confusing
