Spelling – Relief for Us All

I have just read a great article about the English language and its use. It is qiuet pssobile to sepll wdros as you like and eevyrdoby wlil konw what you maen so why do we bthoer at all?

The truth is people have written phonetically since time began and the need for some kind of standardisation came with the advent of publishing, more to the point, printing. How could printers run off a copy of anything if the words randomly changed form on every page?? If you can source original documents that were written before the standardisation of printing and publishing, you will delight in the array of different spellings, sometimes even the same word in the one sentence.

 A really great web-site I am sure that most of Triond users will know is the Word a Day site. If you join them (free) they will send you weird and wonderful words daily that we rarely hear anymore. You can have great fun trying to slip them in conversations at work or at home. Impress and annoy your friends by insulting their intelligence. Here are a few that I can remember without looking them up!!

Parapraxis – letting your true intentions be known through a slip of the tongue or ill-thought comment.

Munificent – to be royally generous,  kindness beyond the call of duty.

Nugatory – of very little importance.

I could go on but you get the gist, have a look yourself and re-discover some of the English language.