There are 3,500 words in
English that contain exceptions to the spelling ‘rules’.
And some of the rules have
hundreds of exceptions.
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How did we get into this situation? |
What happened historically that we spell
‘month’ and
‘mother’ with an
‘o’ instead of a
‘u’?
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Answer |
Have you ever been puzzled by why so many of our words
end with a seemingly useless
‘e’ such as
‘have’ and
‘gone’?
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Answer |
Are you sometimes not sure if you should
double a letter or not?
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Why is that? |
How long does it take an average English
child to learn to spell well?
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Answer |
How long does it take an average Italian
child to learn to spell well?
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Answer |
Why the difference?
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Answer |
Can spelling be modernised?
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Tell me more. |
What's the cost of having such a difficult spelling system?
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The Cost. |
Want to find out what is being
DONE
to end this madness?
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What's being done. |
Do YOU want to do something about it?
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Yes! |
| So it's not you; it's the system. But take heart!
Here's a list of 71 common tricky-to-spell words which will help you focus on
memorising the ones most people are most likely to misspell. |
Common misspellings. |