Peter GermanyApr 7
There’s something about flicking through the pages of a dictionary to get a spelling that typing on a keyboard of touchscreen doesn’t replicate. It forces the need to think through the spelling, and whether it’s spelt line it sounds! #writer #englishspelling #dictionary
Front PageOct 23

27 most common English words people always misspell

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/misspelled

CheshireMay 16, 2025
#EnoughIsEnuf
#GabeHenry
#BigThinkBooks
#KevinDickinson
#EnglishSpelling
https://open.substack.com/pub/bigthinkbooks/p/when-enough-is-enuf-the-strange-and?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4lbnua
When enough is “enuf”: The strange and futile history of English spelling reform

In “Enough Is Enuf,” Gabe Henry traces the history of simplified spelling movements and the lessons they teach us about language.

Big Think Books
Garrulous Ambivert #SNP1SGP2May 4, 2025
The futility of trying to make sense of English: Depending on where you're from, humour is not humor. That you'd think so is really humorous 🤷 #EnglishSpelling #humour #humor #makesNoSense
e_kloczkoApr 17, 2025

Galley proofs of "The Lord of the Rings" corrected by Tolkien.

Tolkien is making a change in the English text in tengwar on the title page. He first wrote the word "seen" as pronounced _siin_ but later decided to write it _seen_ in tengwar instead.

I do believe Tolkien was 'afraid' that readers would not like his habit of writing English phonetically.

"as seen by the Hobbits" is the 'key' to understand the story line of "The Lord of the Rings".

#tolkien #tengwar #englishspelling

Gregorius AdvenaOct 17, 2024
[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
Gregorius AdvenaOct 11, 2024
[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
Gregorius AdvenaOct 7, 2024
[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
Gregorius AdvenaSep 13, 2024
[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
Gregorius AdvenaAug 30, 2024
[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