Eye love the language, and eye mean no offense hear.
But seriously, who coined the initial words / spellings of
the most popular and one of my favourite languages?
Here are some examples that make me wonder:
Chivalry: If they want it to sound like shi-valry, why not
spell it Shivalry? They use Chi for words like China, Chimpanzee, Child and
Chicken. Imagine how these words would sound now if we go with the
"Shi" version.
Then, Than: Do you have any idea how many students score
less in exams just because of this E and A confusion? What's the logic?
To, Two, Too: Seriously? The person who did this definitely
wanted to earn the title - No one can beat me in English.
I go, They go: Then why She go'es' and He go'es'? Why the
discrimination towards He and She?
Who deleted / inserted the U?: So, in some countries favour,
saviour, etc. and in other countries favor, savior, etc. Imagine the plight of
writers.
Chrysanthemum: Come on now, it
has 11 of the 26 letters of the alphabet. Sure I was tempted to search "What Word Uses Every Letter in the Alphabet", thankfully there is
no word... yet.
Talking about alphabets, who coined the word ALPHABET? I
bet, the person saying ALPHA-BETa-theta slept midway, someone overheard and
coined the word.
Okay, that's eat four now... I mean that's it for now. See
you around the A-Z Blogging challenge.
tussi great ho.
ReplyDeleteThank you Janaki
DeleteOh I completely agree with you. I am teaching my 5 year old phonics right now and really nothing makes any sense. English is a very funny language!
ReplyDeleteTrying to explain sounds to children is tough when it comes to English!
ReplyDeleteAnd I dread the day S goes to school....Imagine trying to explain all that to him phew !!!!!
ReplyDeleteExcellent post. Why do we pronounce "nife" for knife? Why use the K when we don't need it.?
ReplyDeletehahahaha
ReplyDeleteDied laughing !!!
When I was first correcting my son's kindergarten spelling, I came to the realization of how silly English was!! :D
ReplyDeleteAnuradha, enjoyed this post. English is a very phunny language as Amitabh Bachchan says. :) You will enjoy Bahasa / Malay. Have a look at it.
ReplyDeleteHa ha! Was never able to explain to my daughter why light is not lite and lite is not light! Still, English has become the universal language. Sigh... And here we are interacting in the same. Good Post.
ReplyDeleteI remember there is question asked by Dharmendra's character in Chupke CHupke..
ReplyDeleteTo is pronounced too, do is doo then why is go not gooo :P
I remembered that too
Deletehahaha :D what creativity speciallt alpha beta theta part :D
ReplyDeleteenjoyed reading it...
This was hilarious. :)
ReplyDeleteLol.. Two Good :P If some one had his/her way we would spell FISH as GH-O-TI (GH from trough, O from women, and TI from dictaTIon) :P
ReplyDeleteI love your randomness Anu. So far Thizz izz my fav post. You forgot how the words are turned and twisted to make them stylish and also the SMS Sland U 4got :D
ReplyDeleteGOod one
awesome and original! Have read a number of peeves in my time - but this beats all. :)
ReplyDeleteYour post is inspired by Chupke Chupke or you inspired it ?
ReplyDeleteEnglish is a very phunny (funny) language ... as said in chupke chupke... :)
ReplyDeleteEnglish. It's not for everyone. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat posts!
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Bring it more Anu..it is cool...
ReplyDeleteBrilliant!!!! Loved it!
ReplyDeleteHa ha..reason why I shared the video with you on FB. :)
ReplyDeleteLoved your post and u did earn the title - no one can beat me in satire ;)
ReplyDeleteHi. BlogwatiG's 'ray-come-end-a-shun' led me here. Wonderful blog.
ReplyDeleteEnglish is a funny language indeed. I don't think there are too many languages out there that have so many words that sound the same but mean different things. The list is endless - led-lead, read-reed, deer-dear, wear-where, politician-jackass, etc
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