RBWells, 1 year ago

What I hate about English is what I love about English. The spelling.

I hate that it’s an impossible system to teach in any logical way. No child can sound out common words like “once”.

But I love that the ridiculous spelling of our words gives you a look into the history of the language. That it’s not just transliterations of the sounds, but letters in a pattern that holds more information than that.