Friday, November 03, 2006

this makes so much bludy sens

Nice article in the Guardian about the tyranny of spelling - wen riting that, I had to chek bak to the articl to make shur I had spelt tirani properly. Ov cors we need some standards to maintane inteligabiliti - but stiking to the idiosinkrasis of current Inglish speling is barmi - for example -

Q - how do yu pronowns GHOTI? see belo.....

















A - FISH - GH as in rough, O as in women and TI as in station

1 comment:

emma said...

Like the post Tone. I always thought the guardian had a bit of a reputation for their inability to spell correctly.

L8trs.