English spelling is a bit of a mess. Often, spelling a word seems unintuitive compared to its pronunciation. Why “Wednesday”? (What’s that first “d” doing in there?) Why “onomatopoeia” and not “onomatopia”? Why “ingenious” and “minuscule” instead of “ingenius” and “miniscule”? A Brief History There are seemingly endless examples of this sort of inconsistency between…
Go here for more of this stuff. Just fer teh lawls. I’m not even kidding, this improved my ESL English skills. This is a long lesson, kids. Pay attention and maybe you’ll English as good as me. First Lesson: Learn to spell…or just no
If you enjoy spending your time online, whether it’s social networking, media, blogs or just surfing the net, you’ve surely come across other Internet users that just question your beliefs on our society.
The other day I was talking to a friend about the standards of journalism in various publciations. “It was awful,” she said, “I was reading an article from [a local publication] and noticed several grammatical errors! I wrote the editors an email about how unimpressed I was.” “Oh that’s awful!” I answered. I have always…
I’m sure that most of us have had to write English or Social Studies papers this past week…and because of that fact, I was reminded of an article I read a while ago about spelling. “English spelling “truely atrosious”, says academic“ This article basically highlights how…unique (to put it nicely) the English language is. Don’t…