01-24-2022, 01:34 AM
(01-23-2022, 03:35 PM)Bengalstripes9 Wrote: That’s actually a good answer. Haven’t heard that one before.
Do you have a good reason for not spelling ‘Foh paw’ like it sounds?
That is the reason why we can't spell all words how they sound, as we don't have letter for every sound so have to have phonemes for particular sounds. In addition to this the English language was a naturally developed language that formed naturally and not following a rigid set of rules and took words from other languages and adopted the irregular spelliing from that language, your example is an example for this.
One of my favourites is Phonetically (spelt how it sounds) is not spelt phonetically, that is because it has a Greek origin and the Greek alphabet uses ph instead of f for the f sound.
