English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)

Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by vorg on Saturday November 28, 2015 @07:21PM (#10643151)

"Hiccough" is spelt "hiccup" by nearly everyone nowadays. In comic books, "though" is often spelt "tho", and "through" spelt "thru". The US and UK should get together and create a small language spelling reform group to suggest more such changes to the 20% of words that cause 80% of the problems, e.g. changing "thorough" to "thuruh", "rough" to "ruff", and "cough" to "coff".

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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by ams6110 on Saturday November 28, 2015 @07:41PM (#10643210)

It's happening by default anyway. Schools now encourage "inventive spelling" rather than correct spelling, so you have kids in 8th grade who can't spell basic words correctly but rather they write them how they sound.

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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by kibwen on Saturday November 28, 2015 @11:09PM (#10643674)

For a historical anecdote, this sort of simplified phonetic spelling was championed in the early 1900s by Andrew Carnegie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Spelling_Board

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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by DanBC on Sunday November 29, 2015 @06:44AM (#10644404)

Moon Joon? bedrum?

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