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

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The English language
Pernament confusion
Law unto itself