Contour v Contor

@suzianne said
Okay, Metal Brain.

@ponderable said
you meant broder?

He brought naught as he fought from a fort, no doubt about the root of the rout, or the route home.

I wrote a limerick about this kind of thing, which I'm trying to remember, bear with me....

If a womb is the place we begin it
And a tomb we put dead people in it
Then a comb would be coom
And a bomb would go boom
It's a funny old language though, innit.

@indonesia-phil said
He brought naught as he fought from a fort, no doubt about the root of the rout, or the route home.

I wrote a limerick about this kind of thing, which I'm trying to remember, bear with me....

If a womb is the place we begin it
And a tomb we put dead people in it
Then a comb would be coom
And a bomb would go boom
It's a funny old language though, innit.

Perhaps Americans are have less time to include the “u”, kinda like “a stitch in time”?🤔

In England, 1970's. The education system decided to start using hte 'Initial Teaching Alphabet' or ita. The idea was kids would spell words how they sounded and later they'd learn some words aren't spelled that way. The result is there is a generation who can't spell.
I suspect either early Americas couldn't be bothered to spell things the English way, or they purposefully tried to break away from the English and make something that separated them.
The English language is a mess anyway. Why doesn't break rhyme with freak?

@yo-its-me said
In England, 1970's. The education system decided to start using hte 'Initial Teaching Alphabet' or ita. The idea was kids would spell words how they sounded and later they'd learn some words aren't spelled that way. The result is there is a generation who can't spell.
I suspect either early Americas couldn't be bothered to spell things the English way, or they purposefully ...[text shortened]... ing that separated them.
The English language is a mess anyway. Why doesn't break rhyme with freak?

@yo-its-me said
In England, 1970's. The education system decided to start using hte 'Initial Teaching Alphabet' or ita. The idea was kids would spell words how they sounded and later they'd learn some words aren't spelled that way. The result is there is a generation who can't spell.
I suspect either early Americas couldn't be bothered to spell things the English way, or they purposefully ...[text shortened]... ing that separated them.
The English language is a mess anyway. Why doesn't break rhyme with freak?

@moonbus said
Both British and American English variants are awful to spell. I suspect this is partly due to the French, Vikings, and Saxons having invaded Britain some time ago and deposited their genes and phonemes there.

Please pronounce the word "ghoti."







I'll give you all a hint: it's pronounced 'fish.'



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@yo-its-me said
In England, 1970's. The education system decided to start using hte 'Initial Teaching Alphabet' or ita. The idea was kids would spell words how they sounded and later they'd learn some words aren't spelled that way. The result is there is a generation who can't spell.
I suspect either early Americas couldn't be bothered to spell things the English way, or they purposefully ...[text shortened]... ing that separated them.
The English language is a mess anyway. Why doesn't break rhyme with freak?

@indonesia-phil said
He had eaten steak for breakfast....Phonetically he had eeten stake for brekfast, there's three versions of 'ea' before you've even really woken up.

We have to employ a couple of staff as a part of the deal in order to live here, (we need them anyway!) we speak pigeon Indonesian, they speak pigeon English, so we've sort of started our own Englonesian language, which is about 50 - 50, wherein the subtleties of both languages are lost completely. I come on here so I can remember how to talk proper.

@yo-its-me said
In England, 1970's. The education system decided to start using hte 'Initial Teaching Alphabet' or ita. The idea was kids would spell words how they sounded and later they'd learn some words aren't spelled that way. The result is there is a generation who can't spell.
I suspect either early Americas couldn't be bothered to spell things the English way, or they purposefully ...[text shortened]... ing that separated them.
The English language is a mess anyway. Why doesn't break rhyme with freak?

Ring, rang, rung. Stink, stank, stunk, think, thank, thunk. 😆