Why Is English Spelling So Damn Weird?!
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Sources used:
The Origins and Development of the English Language, by Thomas Pyles and John Algeo.
Encyclopedia of the English Language, David Crystal.
Spell It Out: The singular story of English spelling, by David Crystal.
Bill Bryson: The Mother Tongue
“The History of English Spelling” by Christopher Upward and George Davidson
"Norman Conquest" – The History of English, Luke Mastin
Music: "Sunrise Drive" by South London HiFi.
Outro music: Rinse & Repeat by Spazz Cardigan.
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All "c"s are pronounced differently in "Pacific Ocean" 😏
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First rule of English spelling: Rule #1: There are know rules.
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This is why Americans love spelling contests so much while other countries don't give a shit. In portuguese, for example, it's just not fun. You say it, you write it.
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The words with 'gh' almost always have a very similar word in German with 'ch', e.g.: Laugh - lachen Though - doch knight - Knecht (servant) light - Licht sight - Sicht brought (to bring) - brachte (bringen) thought (to think) - dachte (denken) to fight - fechten (=fight with swords) tight - dicht night - Nacht ... You get the idea
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English “rules” are like mom: “because she said so.”
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As a non-native to English, this is by far my biggest complaint about English.
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As italian this sounds so strange to me, with our language you know exactly how to write a word once you heard it for the first time, or pronounce a written word you never seen before
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Imagine putting like 5 languages together and having one rule for all the sounds
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English: where the exceptions outnumber the rules, by a lot.
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Words in English are more like glyphs where you memorize how to say it, rather than actually pronounce them.
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As an ESL teacher, I usually say to my students: "welcome to the English language, where pronunciation makes no sense whatsoever!"
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Nothing makes me feel more big brained than pronouncing a word correctly the first time I see it just based on what word I assume it shares an origin with.
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"Why is everything in English said differently than it's written? To make us feel stupid?" - Javier Escuella (1899)
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In 7th grade, I had a brutal argument with my English teacher over my spelling of Grey instead of Gray for the color (shade?). It seems I had read too much H.G. Wells...and she had not. I'm 70 and have not yet recovered from the conflict. It's ok. I have good meds now.
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To anyone who has to learn English as a second language, you have my respect
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ah. english. the only langauge that, has an national. competition, about speling it's words correctly,
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As someone famous said, "English doesn't just borrow from other languages- it chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the back of the head, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar."
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Basically we missed the deadline for revising our written language and now we're stuck with modern-speaking and a classic-writing.
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This stuck out to me: I was in first grade and the teacher split the class in half to do a spelling contest. She asked someone to come up to the class and spell “would”. And me being confident in my spelling, volunteered and spelled “wood”. I lost the contest for my team. I was confused. But had I studied the week’s vocabulary I would’ve known. 😆
