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Re:The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a ... by gbacon on Sunday April 15, 2018 @01:59PM (#16843914)
English is a horrible language with massive numbers of grammatical exceptions.

A former colleague remarked that spelling bees are interesting only because English is such a horrible language. A German spelling bee, in comparison, might go on for weeks!

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Re:The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a ... by chillacy on Sunday April 15, 2018 @04:00PM (#16844611)
Fun fact, english spelling kind of made sense before a bunch of scholars wanted to put the Latin back into the language, and now spelling is divorced from writing. As an example, why don't these words rhyme?

* Enough

* Through

* Though

Perhaps we should've gone through with one of these reforms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_refo...

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Re:The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a ... by finlayson on Sunday April 15, 2018 @07:06PM (#16845534)
And there's also:

* Bough

* Thorough

Five separate words - with five different ways to pronounce "ough"! Spelling in English is a complete disaster. I pity those people who have to learn it as a second language.

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