Timeline for Why do written English vowels differ from other Latin-based orthographies?
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 12, 2016 at 10:38 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Jim Plenty of other languages can (and do) have spelling contests. English isn’t the worst by a long shot. In Tibetan, for example, ‘accomplished’ is pronounced [ɖup̚] but written (in transliteration) bsgrubs, and the Buddhist school known in English as Kagyu (pronounced [kacu] in Tibetan) is written bka’bgryud. Or take Irish, for example, where ‘which won’t get’ is pronounced [nəˈwiː] (‘nuh wee’) but written nach bhfaighidh, and ‘his acceptance’, pronounced [əˈɪːʊ] (‘uh eew’) is written a fhaomhadh. | |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 10:07 | comment | added | user4951 | Awesome. So english is actually the worst language to learn for spelling. That is why you have spelling contests. No other language have that. | |
| Jun 19, 2012 at 21:08 | history | edited | Hugo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 9, 2012 at 0:47 | comment | added | AnWulf | @VonC I'm curious. How do you thing that moon should be spelled? Mune? Then change Monday to Munday? But then the cow who jumped over the moon wouldn't know whether to say moo or mu ... | |
| Aug 6, 2010 at 23:09 | comment | added | VonC | @nohat: just cleaning up my links and throwing away the garbage, under your expert guidance ;) Plus, I'm here to learn. | |
| Aug 6, 2010 at 21:53 | comment | added | nohat | awww @VonC first Grammar Girl, now fact-archive.com... You're making me feel bad for spoiling your credulity. ;-) | |
| Aug 6, 2010 at 21:42 | comment | added | VonC | @nohat: right... no more fact-archive.com then. Ever. | |
| Aug 6, 2010 at 21:41 | history | edited | VonC | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 6, 2010 at 21:13 | comment | added | nohat | just a note, but the first link is merely a copy of an old version of the Wikipedia article. | |
| Aug 6, 2010 at 20:19 | history | answered | VonC | CC BY-SA 2.5 |