There's gotta be a word for this...
Have you ever been writing a word, and looks like it's spelled wrong, but it isn't? I think it might be peculiar to English, since the spelling is so irregular.
posted by Cori at 8:28 PM
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Try living over here! In Vietnam we've got the romanized alphabet but I swear there is no way to distinguish the sounds can canh khan khanh so how am I to know how to know which one I'm spelling?
They should have let Bernhard shaw reform the English Alphabet.
Check out http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxwhat04.html
Thank you, Yossarian Lives, for the link. I've known about the "ghoti" spelling of "fish" for a while, but never knew to whom to attribute it.
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