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From page A4
And bomb and balm are pronounced exactly the same… but minute and minute aren’t! And that’s just the spelling and pronunciation. Then there are all these rules we’ve manufactured for the “correct” way to use these words.
Like no ending a sentence with a preposition? What’s that all about? And take the following words: bough, cough, dough, rough, through… None of them rhyme but the words “ate” and “eight” are pronounced exactly the same. My current pet peeve is the lack of clarity in some of the way we form sentences. Here’s one: “There are donuts in the break room if you want one.” It sounds pretty straightforward… until you think about it. The donuts are in the break room regardless of whether or not you want one. You can’t even clear it up with “If you want a donut, there are some in the break room.”
It’s still making it sound like the existence of the donuts is completely dependent upon your desire to have one or not have one.
And look, the letter “k” is completely unnecessary.
We have “c” as in “cat” and “s” as in snake. We don’t need “k” for anything. I saw a book once that was intended to be the worst book for teaching children the alphabet. It had awesome examples in it like “P is for Pteradactyll” and “K is for Knee” and “W is for Wrinkle” and such. Good luck getting Little Jimmy to read after that…
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