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Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong by hydrok9 on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:07PM (#35602772)
History! Britain got conquered a bunch of times and some of the old words have just stuck around.
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Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong by mcv on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:13PM (#35602853)
My son, not a native English speaker, even taught himself the Chaos poem. It's a good way to learn to appreciate the horrors of the English language.
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Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong by hydrok9 on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:31PM (#35603098)
They are living relics of the ancient past! and we still use them today! English is cool.
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