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Originally Posted by Kingswood
Had you heard these conjugated verbs spoken out loud, you would have had a decent chance of spelling them correctly.
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Well, I'm certainly not that good, but I can say that it became even more difficult this semester as I came from a class taught by someone who spoke South American Spanish and am now being taught by an instructor that speaks the dialect spoken in Spain. Suddenly, many of the sounds became "th" where there was none, before. Spelling based upon listening to the spoken word got thrown out the window, entirely.
So, for English, what standard do we use for all these spelling changes? The north and south are going to fight over "peacon" versus "puhcon" pie, people from Bahstan will get the "idear" to have "r" swapped with "h" in many words so they can drive a "cah", and Pittsburghers are still going to put their clothes in a "worsher". Let's hope to god we never change "schedule" to "shedule" in an attempt to standardize on Queen's English, although I do agree they need to start dropping those "u"s in "colour" and "favourite".
Besides, all these words get underlined in red no matter where I type them in, so I can correct common mistakes from hearing and learn over time. Autocorrect in MS word, however, will be the dooming of us all...