translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6918 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 1 of 4 26 June 2010 at 5:34am | IP Logged |
English Spelling
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ALS Senior Member United States Joined 5803 days ago 104 posts - 131 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian, Finnish, Russian
| Message 2 of 4 26 June 2010 at 8:44am | IP Logged |
That was pretty good. Looking at the Wikipedia article about that guy I found an interesting article about English spelling and pronunciation.
http://englishspellingproblems.co.uk/html/history.html
I kind of feel sorry for non-native English speakers who have to learn it; even a language like Finnish may be complicated but is much more regular in its rules than English, where probably 30% of the words most frequently used are irregular in some way.
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johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5326 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 3 of 4 26 June 2010 at 8:57am | IP Logged |
ALS, that link was very interesting.
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