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Hero.

Wait wait wait wait.........I'm pretty good at catching things. You're saying I could get a drive by kitten adoption? That sounds super fast, efficient, and then I'd have a kitten on my way home from work!

The UK should do a major spelling reform and troll the shit out of the U.S and their then "archaic" English.

Seriously!

We have a third grader, and he's pretty good at reading. Recently he has been arguing with us about the pronunciation of some new words from his homework.

The problem is, his arguments are sound! He's accurately following the rules he learned for sounding out words.

When this has come up in the past, all I've been able to do is acknowledge his argument and explain to him how English has all kinds of weird rules and exceptions, and it's the kind of thing you remember with experience using the words. Like, there is no new rule to learn, and you don't have to freak out about remembering all these exceptions. It will just come with time. (Because we all know there's nothing that kids like more than olds telling them to just wait or give it time, lol)

You can work it out through tough thorough thought, though.

Megladon?

Should be spelled left tenant

French in particular gets a lot of words with original spellings because it used to be the language of the courts in England.

And you also have words like Wednesday...

Not always, the word skosh(meaning just a little bit or a tiny amount) comes from the Japanese word sukoshi(少し), but that can probably be attributed to the language not generally using romanized letters.

It's a very interesting word to me since its one of the very few words that migrated from Japanese to English and isn't a name of something. The way it came over is also rather interesting, as it was through collaboration between US and Japanese soldiers during the Korean war.

My favorite are British English, who can't stand the French to the point that they say things like filet with a hard T.

This also reminds me of a recent trip to Colorado, where they do the same thing with Spanish words, anglicizing all of them. Salida (sa-LIE-da) is the first one that's coming to mind, but I know there are other cities in Colorado that are clearly Spanish words that they've just abused.

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