Summary
A CONFERENCE of the Spelling Society held at Coventry University last weekend, was told that children were baffled by the "phonetic unreliability" of the English language - meaning, apparently, the way certain combinations of letters are pronounced differently in different words.
Meaning the poor little dears (not all of them, obviously, just the ones who complain) can't understand what they read because it doesn't sound in their heads like what it, er, sounds like when it's spoken.See the full content of this document
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Viewpoint: Alternatively Speaking
Which is great news for me because it means I can respond with words like TOUGH and they'll be none the wiser if they read this column. ...
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