Farrukh Dhondy | Should we write English as it’s spoken? Or just leave it as it is…
Published : May 1, 2021, 12:00 am IST
Updated : May 1, 2021, 12:00 am IST
Despite its anti-phonic spelling, English has become the language of many nations albeit through colonisation and conquest
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And now we know it’s a deadly disease
Yet belief in miracles endures
We sing their hymns and litanies
We want the lame to walk again
And the blind be made to see
Martyrs court their deaths and then
Find that they have ceased to be.”
From Jagnu’s Paradoxes by Bachchoo
The Inturnashunul Inglish Speling Kongress has this week voted to propagayt sumthing kold Trudishunul Spelling RivIzd. Thay wont a noo set of rools to bekum dhu noo norm…
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Howz yor speling? An organisation known as the International English Spelling Congress has just voted in favour, or favor, of major reform.
Apparently, English takes up to three years longer to master than other languages, and the peculiarities of our spelling sytem are at least partly to blame.
The congress is concerned that far too many English words don’t sound the way they are spelt, or, indeed, spelled. Traditional Spelling Revised, or TSR, aims to get rid of silent letters such as ‘w’ in wrong.
If they have their way, rong will soon be right, rite will no longer be rong, and illogical spellings such as colonel, biscuit, yacht, daughter, parliament and knife will all be simplified.
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