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Thru, Tho, & Altho | Thru With “Through”
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The world of words and simpler spelling. Thru, Tho, and Altho. Thru, Tho, & Altho. This is something you can do today to endorse simpler English spelling. Just start writing. In all your e-mails, texts, notes, and everywhere else that isn’t “official”. These are legitimate dictionary words, generally labeled “variant” or “abbreviation” or “informal”, but real nevertheless. Here are versions for pages with a dark background:. And here are tiny ones for any background:. Is rapidly changing to. In all my pe...
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Decide that you are thru with “through” | Thru With “Through”
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The world of words and simpler spelling. Thru, Tho, and Altho. Decide that you are thru with “through”. Start simplifying English spelling today by declaring that you are thru with. Start writing: thru, tho, and altho. Against simplifying spelling rebutted. See the pronunciation rules. For the way sounds are described on this site. From → Spelling. More phonemic spelling →. 8221; proposal. (Click on the Simpler Spelling 7. But it can be a sudden process, like the recent German and Portuguese spelling ref...
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The pronunciations | Thru With “Through”
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The world of words and simpler spelling. Thru, Tho, and Altho. A phoneme is a small group of similar sounds that we think of as the same “sound”. Rather than use the International Phonetic Alphabet or some similar complex system, this site uses the following simple way of denoting spellings and phoneme sounds. Words used as examples (such as. Are written in italics. Spelling is represented by capital letters. So,. Has an F in it and not a PH. A/ = A in. Ah/ = A in. Ay/ = A in. Au/ = AU in. B/ = B in.
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The objections | Thru With “Through”
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The world of words and simpler spelling. Thru, Tho, and Altho. English is a mishmash of Old Norse, Old German, Old French, Middle French, and Latin, with a bit of other foreign adoptions. Unlike most other Western languages, English has generally preserved the spelling of words from their sources. And the result is a confused mess of spellings that aren’t consistent and that have few clear rules and many, many exceptions. The three biggest objections to spelling reform are:. Any spelling system that accu...
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Rob Caravaggio Commentaries: June 2015
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Alternative audio commentaries on movies — robcompodcast@gmail.com. This man, though not a real Native American, has a great head of hair. Your browser does not support this audio. I've once again teamed up with the King of Commentaries himself, Tysto. We also extol the virtues of wearing suspenders with jeans (well, I do) and stare longingly at Mose Harper's ripped-to-shreds six-pack abs. Why not take off your spurs and join us? The true story of Cynthia Ann Parker. About Wayne's war (non)record.
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The silent alphabet | Thru With “Through”
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The world of words and simpler spelling. Thru, Tho, and Altho. And (UK, Oz, and S and NE US). From → Spelling. Larr; Esthetics of our spelling. All right vs alright →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. On Final F to V changes.
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Capitalization | Thru With “Through”
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The world of words and simpler spelling. Thru, Tho, and Altho. I’ve been a professional writer for close to 20 years. The one thing I find in the business world that irritates me more than anything else isn’t poor spelling (spellcheck has fixed that) or grammar (college-educated Americans are pretty competent). It’s capitalization. Time and Expense Administration. Tool rather than, say,. Indeed, even if they wanted to name it Athena, they would feel highly obligated to make that an acronym for. It would ...
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Esthetics of our spelling | Thru With “Through”
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The world of words and simpler spelling. Thru, Tho, and Altho. Esthetics of our spelling. I can’t believe there’s been no mention of the aesthetic aspect of this debate. The fact is, phonetic spellings are ugly, for the most part. ‘Enuf’ is crude and inelegant, ‘enough’ is not. ‘Colour’ and ‘honour’ are more pleasing than their American alternatives. That’s a comment from user EdmundBurkeLivesOn on a spelling article. I’m sure he would balk at the idea of changing, say,. Father, mother, sister, brother.
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Simplifying English grammar? | Thru With “Through”
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The world of words and simpler spelling. Thru, Tho, and Altho. English is a pretty simple language when it comes to grammar. It’s spelling, pronunciation, and idioms that are most challenging. Yet there are aspects of English that are tricky enough that native speakers stumble over them and, indeed, are causing widespread change. Thee, thou, thy, thine. Are no longer in daily use. Indeed, even the KJV was using them as archaic forms re-purposed as high-falutin’ speech. (For example:. Why are you asking I?
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