English is Mean.

If I wrote a textbook, it'd be called English is Mean. As a teacher, parent, and ESOL tutor, I often told students, kids, and tutees (?!) that English is mean. Here are a few of my favorite examples. Add your own! and, please contribute through PayPal

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Friday, January 31, 2020

Skid, skidded, glide, glided, slid, slide

Skid, skidded, glide, glided, slide, slid

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"What If English Were Phonetically Consistent?"

https://youtu.be/A8zWWp0akUU
A brilliant description and pronunciation of the simplifying of the rules.

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Sunday, June 9, 2019

Fiery vs firy or firey?

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Friday, March 15, 2019

Let's Use All the Weird Nonsensical Rules in One Language!

http://cheezburger.com/6279904768/lets-use-all-the-weird-things

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Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Drink, drank, drunk.

"It's unpleasantly like being drunk."
-"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"You ask a glass of water."
-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Saturday, August 25, 2018

"Rough" vs "ruff" vs "dough" vs "doe"

Why isn't "rough" spelled like "ruff", or sound like "dough" vs "doe"?

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Why isn't prove pronounced prOve?

Why isn't "prove" pronounced "prOHve"? Like, "probe".

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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Ghoti sounds like fish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti

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Always spelled wrong...

ZING

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Monday, August 20, 2018

Everyday Phrases Coined By Shakespeare

45 Everyday Phrases Coined By Shakespeare

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Tuesday, July 3, 2018

OK?

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/25617/difference-between-ok-and-okay

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Friday, November 24, 2017

Shoes vs hoes vs shows.

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Friday, July 14, 2017

Carpeting?

Why isn't it carpetting?

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Older Posts Home

ichthyosis

OK, it's not a good thing to have, but it's got a cool name. https://www.niams.nih.gov/health-topics/ichthyosis

Still not a list.

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/obscene-indecent-and-profane-broadcasts Obscene, Indecent and Profane Broadcasts Feder...
Lit, lighted, bit, bitten.
Endoskeleton vs. exoskeleton

"An endoskeleton is formed on the inside of an animal’s body, while an exoskeleton is formed on the outside of an animal’s body." ...