Linda’s #SoCS Prompt for today…
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “spell.” Use the word “spell” any way you’d like. Bonus points if you use it in the first sentence. Enjoy!
Can you spell?
It’s not an easy thing, especially the English language!
We teach a phonetic scheme of reading and writing in school called Read Write Inc, where the emphasis is on learning the basic phonics first, and acquiring the skills to blend and read CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words like cat and dog etc.
Then you get on to the more complex two letter sounds (ng, nk, th, ch, sh etc) ,then the voewls (ay, ee, igh, ow, oo ) and then the split diagraphs (the ay sound in cake for example) and then the ones that almost seem pointless when you can write the same sound severalw ays.. equally, you can say what looks like the same sound in different ways.
Like I read that yesterday. I will read it again tomorrow.
Why spell height with an igh when mite is the same sound yet easier to write? Actually, simpler than that would be myt but that is not even a word!!
Even the word word isn’t easy to grasp! Phonetically it should be wurd…
And the sious and tion endings? Why not shus and shun, like lushus (luscious) or attenshun (attention).
Whoever decided to be the God of spelling in English must have been on something, that’s what I think!
The grammar and punctuation is hard enough, without the spellings that bear no resemblance to the words we say!
No wonder they say English is one of the hardest languages to grasp!
Oh, I could go on and on, but I shall leave you with this phonetically correct haiku!
The Inglish languwij
Purmunent confushun
Lor untoo itself*-*-*
The English language
Pernament confusion
Law unto itself
But I Smile Anyway... 
Apr 24, 2017 @ 00:02:17
Definitely glad I know how to speak and spell (with the help of spell check) English! It would be a daunting lauguage to learn.
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Apr 24, 2017 @ 06:37:57
It real;y is when you break it down.. how did we manage??!!
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 20:21:08
HAHA! You are so right, Sis. I love that haiku, it says it all! (Well phonetically at least)!!!
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 20:27:44
Lol thanks sis!! One of my bug bears!!!!
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 15:04:10
Very clever – I love it!
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 15:05:23
Thanks Traci!!!
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 14:58:57
English is definitely a very difficult language to learn, Ritu. Well done on this haiku.
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 15:05:09
Thanks Robbie!!!
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 14:23:47
my spelling is so bad that all that made total sense!
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 15:04:42
😂😂😂
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 13:39:32
Ha, Absolutely spot on. Red and lyked!
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 15:04:25
Thanx dood!!!
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 11:12:44
I’m guessing if I wrote like I talked no one would understand a word I said lol
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 11:34:28
😂😂😂
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 10:58:24
To anyone who can teach little children anything, I applaud you! And this just made me laugh 🙂
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 11:34:13
Lol thanks Noelle
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 09:22:01
Haha this is great. Especially as I have a 6yr old learning all about bloody split diagraphs etc. It’s all good fun!
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 09:32:53
Fun, but so frustrating!!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 22:48:12
Even on Saturday, the teacher in you is hard at work Sister!! 😅
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 22:48:40
I just can’t switch off Brother!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 22:50:59
Haha, it’s okay!!!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 22:51:43
Was at a family gathering today… still ended up surrounded by 3-4 year-olds!!!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 22:54:20
LOL..there appears no escape Sister!! 👦🏻👧🏻👦🏻👧🏻
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 22:56:50
I think not Brother!!… but I love it really
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 23:08:15
That’s what counts most Sister!!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 19:13:30
I think that is the only advantage the German language has. You speak everything as you write it. The three lines phonetically would be in German:
Si Inglisch länguitsch
Pörmanent konfiuschn
Lo antu itself
That was funny to do, Sis!!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 22:29:22
Hee hee!!! It is a funny language!!!
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 11:58:09
LOL… the good thing is, if you know how to speak the letters of the alphabet you can speak every word! But the grammar is difficult sometimes even for those whose native tongue it is.
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 12:19:35
Soooo true sis!!!
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 16:27:21
😁😁
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 15:50:16
I love the English language, but this is the only one I’ve known. I can’t imagine how difficult it is for an adult to learn English as a second language. It’s like a big oxymoron. I think of someone who has learned the American spelling of neighbor and then travels to England or Canada…oh, the confusion!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 22:24:43
Absolutely Mary! It is a tough language to learn!!!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 15:06:34
Fabulous!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 22:22:46
Thanks Dorna!!!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 14:26:33
O Ritu that wuz so fun to reed, I thawt I’d rite tu u the way it sownds rather than how it is spelt. It’s hard tu du! Funny, when I saw the wurd Spell my first thawt was of a Magik Spell, nawt as in writing. But of corse the teecher in u prevailed. Have a faboolus weekend!! 😉
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 22:22:28
Lol thanks Deb! We arr sow condishund to ryt ryt that it’s hard to ryt rong!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 22:49:43
LOL, u r sow ryt!! 🙂
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 22:51:05
😂😂😂
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 12:30:30
“It is true that that that that that man used in that sentence was used incorrectly.”
I’ve been doing battle with English for 62 years.
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 12:31:51
And what a fun battle eh!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 10:49:58
Amen Sis, luv the Haiku. 💞💝
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 10:56:08
Thanx sis!!!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 08:31:04
Thank goodness English is my mother tongue! Lol… 🙂
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 08:46:13
It is easier isn’t it when you grew up with it… but when I teach it now, all broken down, I wonder how we learned! Was rote learning the best way? As in, ‘That is the way you spell it so just learn it’, instead of teaching 5 year old these spelling rules?!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 06:12:52
Good one, my mother tongue is Urdu. So what you wrote is a great piece for me to learn English correctly.
So I thank you for that.
Now Speaking that English is hard, I thought to share some of my experience. I hope it might enlightened you. In Urdu language we have separate words for each thing for e.g You have Uncle or Aunt or to be more detail we can Paternal or Mother side.
We have separate words for each relation. Like my mother elder sister is called Khala, my father elder brother Taya. If my father elder sibling is sister than the male gender is Phuppa. Similarly my father younger brother is called Chacha.
In Arabic is more detailed. like I heard for a simple horse they have 72 words describing horse. I don’t know Arabic in detail else would have tell in details.
We learn so much from each other languages.
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 08:28:47
Thank yo for your response! Actually I am Punjabi, Sikh, so I know all about our relationship names! So much easier!!
I posted about that before!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 08:30:23
😀 Key haal hay tauda 😀
My mother is from Sialkot. But I didn’t know punjabi just bits and buts.
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 08:44:46
Theek hai!
I find Punjabi and Urdu similar in many ways. In fact as my parents were born in Kenya, our Punjabi is much softer, with an Urdu influence, rather than the gruff Punjabi spoken in the villages in Punjab!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 09:14:27
That’s great, I love to go to Kenya, infact there was a time, I want to die in Africa. I love Africa that much.
It’s awesome to meet people from where you love to meet.
I hope you don’t mind, getting in touch. You still reside in Kenya?
Since it’s my wish and desire to go to Kenyan safari once in my lifetime.
About your comment, so you know Urdu well that means?
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 09:19:21
I never lived there. My parents moved to the U.K. where I was born. I’ve been there many times though as I have a lot of family that lives there!!!
And… I wouldn’t say I know Urdu well but I understand and can communicate !!! My best friend speaks Urdu so we exchanged a lot of language over out friendship!!!!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 09:23:37
Okay, you do live in full cosmopolitan culture. Hope to have lovely conversation in future. Nice to meet and knowing you 🙂
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 09:24:52
Lol!!! Yes tgere is quite a mix in my life! And I married into a UK based Sikh family who have no roots in Kenya so I see my Motherland India a lot now too !!!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 10:03:49
Wow, what a mix and than you might have a son / daughter in law from another part of the world with a grand children in another part.
So we are speaking about major globalisation overhere 😀
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 10:15:17
My brother is married to a Finnish girl so I have a Finnidian nephew!!!!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 10:45:54
Wow lol 😛
I love Finnish, read a lot about the Finnish curriculum. I wish I can shift my family over there.
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 10:55:53
I absolutely love there education system too! I am a teacher and wish our own government would take examples from Them!!!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 11:03:57
Absolutely right, I want to know more about it in detail.
It’s the same reason, I am homeschooling my daughter
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 11:15:15
Where do you live?
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 12:01:28
I reside in KSA for the past 10 years
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 12:29:50
Lovely! I’ve never been!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 12:30:46
Yes difficult to come, since KSA didn’t yet offer tourist visa.
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 12:32:47
My brother lived in Dubai… that’s the closest for me!!!
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 12:35:12
Dubai is way different than KSA. Dbx is a tourist friendly place. If you haven’t visited him. You should it’s quite good
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Apr 22, 2017 @ 22:20:39
I wish I had then. It’s too.late now. He moved to Finland!!!
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 06:04:13
O than come on vacation but the best time to come is December till March end. In April it started to get hot.
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 09:31:24
One day!! It will happen!
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 10:31:06
Will look forward to seeing a blog post on it
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Apr 23, 2017 @ 11:33:59
😀
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