Hacker News dove into English spelling's oddities, like the forgotten letter yogh! 🧐 Discussion covered phonetic inconsistencies, historical influences, and the tough challenge of spelling reform due to dialects & etymology. #EnglishSpelling 1/6

'Peigi, you are making fun, what pointy end on a sheep?'.

English spelling is very weird. I'm not a one to talk as a Gaelic speaker, but it is very inconsistent. Spanish is far more regular. Poor folks trying to learn! 3/3 #language #EnglishLanguage #EnglishSpelling

Today i found my favorite example of first language interference: this example of writing English right-to-left #englishspelling #l1interference

Can we try to reclaim spelling our words in Canada, as would be 100% accurate in the UK?

Let me start with a few :-
Labour (include a u)
Humour (ditto)
Colour (ditto)
Centre (re, not er)
Cancelling (doubling the L)

Does anyone care??

#EnglishSpelling #Cdnpoli

My friend mispronounced "miscellaneous" with a /k/ sound, but then I realized its shortened form, "misc", is often pronounced with a /k/ sound

What other sounds have a different sounds / spelling when truncated?

combination --> combo
inspiration --> inspo
session --> sesh

#englishspelling

[Bloo Bouk] The LUKE vowel with yod, HUGH type, standardised. left: Nordic, EW; right: non-Nordic, U (UE in closed monosyllables). ew < eow [Old English]; cf. Chaucer: valu, vertu. #Chaucer #EnglishSpelling #literature #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics #orthography

[Bloo Bouk] The LUKE vowel standardised. left: Nordic, OO; right: non-Nordic, U (UE in monosyllables). shoe < shoo, cf. Chaucer: And shoos full moiste and newe (Canterbury Tales, 456). #Chaucer #EnglishSpelling #literature #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics #orthography

[Bloo Bouk] The BOOK vowel standardised. left: Nordic, OU; right: non-Nordic [French], UI. fout < foot, cf. King Horn: And setten fout to grunde (138). cf. Havelok the Dane: coude. #Chaucer #EnglishSpelling #literature #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics #orthography

[Bloo Bouk] The DOUG vowel standardised. left: general, U; right: before consonant and vowel, Ù. Happy to see *cuntry* makes for joy and laughter. An orthographic necessity. #Chaucer #EnglishSpelling #literature #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics #orthography

[Bloo Bouk] The ROSE vowel standardised. left: General, OE (Œ); right: non-Nordic more than one syllable, stressed position, Ó. #Chaucer #EnglishSpelling #literature #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics #orthography

[Bloo Bouk] The MIKE vowel standardised. left: General, Y; right: final letter more than one syllable, EY (str. ÉY). Tym < time recurrent in #Chaucer and Wycliffe's bible. Ryt < write, right, rite. #EnglishSpelling #literature #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics #orthography

[Bloo Bouk] The PETE vowel standardised. left: General, EE; right: non-Nordic more than one syllable, stressed position, É. Note pees < peace, dreem etc., recurrent in #Chaucer and Wycliffe's bible. #EnglishSpelling #literature #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics #orthography

[Bloo Bouk] The JANE vowel standardised. left: General, AE (Æ); right: non-Nordic more than one syllable, stressed position, Á. Note æt > ate, eight; ræn > rain, rein, reign. #EnglishSpelling #literature #Chaucer #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics #orthography

[Bloo Bouk] The beginning of Beowulf in the prose translation of a friend in Oxford (professor of Old English), now in the bloo-bouk system: all reassignments of digraphs are organic and vernacular, no innovation. #EnglishSpelling #literature #Chaucer #lexicography #Beowulf #SamuelJohnson

[Bloo Bouk] The CROWN vowel standardised. left: Nordic, AU. right: non-Nordic, OU. Note faund < fynd [Nordic] vs. found > founded [non-Nordic] #EnglishSpelling #literature #Chaucer #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics #orthography

[Bloo Bouk] The MAUD vowel standardised. left: Nordic, OA. right: non-Nordic, AU. foat < fought, loa < law, but caut < caught [non-Nordic, from Fr. cacher] #EnglishSpelling #literature #Chaucer #SamuelJohnson #phonetics #linguistics