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Questions about putative differences between spelling and pronunciation.
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Is it wrong to pronounce "pizza" as "peedtza"?
The word pizza is from Italian and the spelling is still Italian in many languages (in all languages using Latin alphabets that I know of), in Italian it's pronounced /pittsa/ with a "long" (or "doubl …
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Does the quirky spelling in English actually make it easier to read?
In theory you might save space by keeping different spelling for homophones since you could omit some parts of the sentence that in oral form might be needed. But in practice I don't think it does sav …
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Can a word be contracted twice (e.g. "I'ven't")?
When you say "I've done it" it's pronounced something like [aiv donit] (with the stress on [ai]), but when you say "I haven't done it" it's pronounced something like [ai (h)avent donit] (with or witho …