Posted on 05/30/2008 7:29:11 AM PDT by MissouriConservative
Touche!
It is a damn poor mind indeed which can’t think of at least two ways to spell any word. - - Andrew Jackson
“Spelling Reform” - isn’t that just what educrats are trying to get away with in the publik skools?
Students can spel as they want, so nobody feels that they have failed.
“Mixingly of adverb and adjective with verb become noun, I hold no object to a regimen of consistently regularized spelling. Object, do I, to those spellings which are zealous defying reasonable attempts to write them soundingly.”
May I ask which dressing you prefer on your word salads?
;-)
Thousand Island and milled pepper.
He mispeld xruwawt.
How did you spell your child’s name on their birth certificate?
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Ghoti ping.They are the leaders of the spelling-reform movement, a passionate but sporadic 800-year-old campaign to simplify English orthography. In its long and failure-ridden history, the movement has tried to convince an indifferent public of the need for a spelling system based on pronunciation.How would Jack Kennedy spell "Caribbean" or "Laos"? How would Jerry Ford spell "judgment"? How would British readers spell "Shakespeare was a woman"? ;') |
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Dear MovementKonservative...
Considering my first initial is ‘C’ I would disagree...with gas hovering at $4.00/gal, I cannot afford to have all my personalized items re-monogrammed. Unfortunately, I didn’t choose to go into community organizing or minority outreach in urban Chicago so I have to subsist on a Windows administrators salary. :(
Ghoti? Wait, I know this one. Carp! No? Tuna! OK I got it. “You can tune a piano but you can’t tune a ghoti?”
Iz this the Fryday silliness thred?
Almost all of the finalists are Middle Eastern Indian.
I’m too old to start over. Have mercy.
My daughter was a participant last year.
The same yo-yos were out there then. I thanked them for their role in dumbing down America.
Aleksander.
Their campaign is working. I’ve even caught editorials in major newspapers misusing “loose” for “lose.”
You see it everywhere. I’ve given up on correcting them.
Many schools now have geography bees. :)
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