DEJ #3
"The
fact that through, rough, dough, plough, hiccough and trough all
end with -ough, yet none of them sound the same as any
of the others, is the sort of thing that has been vexing poets and learners of
English for quite some time."
This quote I found very
entertaining. It is very true and makes you wonder how that can make any sense
at all. Also how out of all the things in our world that has changed why has
this stayed the same? It does not making learning our language any easier. I
have had my son tell me that I was wrong once, about spelling. We were driving
by a Dollar General and he asked me what did that sign say? So I told him and
he says Mom you can not be correct there is no J in that word. He was 5 at the
time. So if a child can see there is something wrong then why hasn’t someone
corrected this?
SHEA, AMMON. "On Language - The Keypad Solution -
NYTimes.com." The New
York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. Version NY. N.p.,
22 Jan. 2010. Web. 21 Sept. 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24FOB-onlanguage-t.html?_r=0>.
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