https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_e
Cognitive dissonance on the more accurate name of “Ignored e”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronym_(linguistics)
Record a record? Convict a convict? What an annoying concept.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_leveling
At least irregular verbs are drifting away, that’s a pleasant surprise.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisyllabic_laxing
fotograffy > fuhtawgruhfee I’ll die on this hill
You know what bugs me the most?
[/old man screams at the clouds rant]
Oh I’m in good company, this is my kinda rant 🤙
You're about twenty centuries too late on the χ thing. You're gonna need to go back and talk to the Romans.
[kʰ] or [χ], both end as /k/ [kʰ] in English anyway. But it feels weird that people insist on that etymological ⟨ch⟩ as if "English got it from Latin" was more important than "it's ultimately from Greek".
It'll be part of the great English spelling reform. Until then, it's going to be spelled the way we Romanized Greek in the 16th century.
On thinking it over, "proper" spelling of foreign words has done its own share of damage to English spelling. We don't just have to learn our own spelling conventions, we also have to learn foreign ones. Or not (sent to you from Cairo, Illinois, locally pronounced "care-oh")
I am this old: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI9hHo9_QB8
Wow, I guess this is like UK schoolhouse rock? Not bad
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