The title says it all. A page of poems that just beg to be read aloud. It’s a wonder we ever learn to spell at all.
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The title says it all. A page of poems that just beg to be read aloud. It’s a wonder we ever learn to spell at all.
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Being a fan of etymologies and linguistic dispersal and evolution, I don’t advocate spelling reform (better use your dharma and mana to help children worldwide, not so silly and selfish) but I love these poems. I keep going back to them.
And once again, I feel grateful that English is my native language. I would suck at learning it otherwise.
I don’t approve of top-down committee-driven spelling reform, but I’m always interested in how spelling evolves in the hands of the people – I always write “donut” now, and sometimes write “color” instead of “colour” in deference to programming standards.
You know, I was so delighted with the poems that I never even bothered looking at what the site was before posting the link (kind of a dumb oversight, in retrospect). I agree that organized spelling reform is kind of silly, though I have to admit the Canadian in me still bristles a bit at the use of “color” outside of HTML coding!