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'Solemn' . WTF ?? 'Sollum' surely the way to go here.
Likewise 'Indict' !! Has to be'Indite' imo. ...
not to mention 'Queue'
. Look at 'Bomb' 'Comb' 'Tomb' ...same spelling - three different pronunciations ....same with 'Over' , Cover' 'Hover' and how about
'Love' 'Cove' 'Move' ?
How do learners ever mannidge ?
As someone randomly to spell meringue... most will fail!
Went the day well?
I must of missed them.
English spelling is perfectly logical, if you look at the derivation of the words. It's the pronunciation which has become crazy over the centuries.
In fact look at your first example, solemn:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/solemn
"From Middle English solemne, from Old French solempne, from Late Latin sōlennis and sōlempnis, from Latin sōlemnis, from sollemnis (“ritual; festive, solemn, customary, celebrated at a fixed date”), from sollus (“entire”)."
IT's a wierd spelling coming down from French and Latin. So it's the French fault, as usual. If that doesn't make you realise Brexit is right, I don't know what will.
Mar 12, 2019 -- 3:21PM, SlippyBlue wrote:
If I had a quid for every time someone on here said "must of" as opposed to "must have" I'd be quite a wealthy bloke.
Slippers , common amongst those who don't read much i find as they're spelling 'would of' as it's said .... most folk do actually say 'would of' even though it's incorrect (i guess it's because 'would have' sounds clumsy ) .... brought /bought and less/fewest are the ones that most educated people can't get right .. how come ? ...i went to a very poor school by the way ?
