Andrés BeyoA prinsipios del siglo 20 ‘ #AndrewCarnegie ’ promobió la adopsión de una #ReformaOrtográfika ke simplifikaría la eskritura del idioma inglés. Pero ese proyekto no logró aseptasión jeneral.
ospalhI was briefly feeling very brave for using the simplified spelling of »retrieve« instead of »retreive«.
You know, retreive, the word that is almost identical to receive?
Then again, simplified spelling would be retriev and reciev.
@yvanspijk
No, that is why »laf« was written that way 400 years ago.
It is written that way now because nobody except Webster managed to do any kind of spelling reform for English, end his one only stuck in America.
The big reform that went nowhere being the Simplified Spelling Board.
#simplifiedSpelling #SimplifiedSpellingBoard
Other bits ar just the author making spelling errors and the editors not catching them.
This seems to be from a Bulgarian source, so presumably the author’s transliteration/translation.
Or maybe it is one of those infamous »Flemish tipografers« that inserted the »h« into »gost«.
#ospalhReads #GrandDelusion #Gorodetsky #simplifiedSpelling
@sbi @feorag
Also, not all English speakers agree (or agreed).
That it *should* be that way, i mean.
#SimplifiedSpelling #English #spelling #spellingReform
Also, not all English speakers agree (or agreed).
That it *should* be that way, i mean.
#SimplifiedSpelling #English #spelling #spellingReform
Yu heard of that bakery chain that went bankrupt?
Their stock price dropt lie a scone.
#dadJoke #pun #SimplifiedSpelling
Their stock price dropt lie a scone.
#dadJoke #pun #SimplifiedSpelling
My repeated toots about learning the pronunciation of English words when it’s not obvious from the spelling:
Looks (sounds) like native speakers hav their problems, too.
Heard two different people pronounces two different words wrong. (Or “wrong”, i ges.)
•Viscount with an »s« sound i get.
•But sieve a long vowel? Isn’t that a word yu know how to say, but maybe not how to spel?
Simplified Spellin Rules has »siv« for it.
#SimplifiedSpelling #spelling #English
From now on, when i see donut speltd doughnut, i wil, at least in my hed, pronounce it as it is written: /ˈdoʊ ɯʀ̊ nət/, with a bit of flexibility in the middle, of course.
#SimplifiedSpelling #ugh #donut
#SimplifiedSpelling #ugh #donut
As as side note, i ges yu can spel it either “sindrom” or “sindrome”, depending on how yu say it, just like “either” or “iether”
#SimplifiedSpelling #SimplifiedSpellingBoard #iether
#SimplifiedSpelling #SimplifiedSpellingBoard #iether