English Is Weird!

Even through thorough thought the English language can be tough.

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If you are a native English speaker, you know your language is pretty weird. I remember realizing this when I learned how to spell neighbor. Foreigners learning the language know only to well how weird it is. Oddities in spelling and pronunciation happen a lot in the English language. Like tough and though sounding different. Or how you can wind up a ball and throw it into the wind. And I can object to that object.

Did you know we order our adjectives in a specific way? And we don’t even have to think about it! How does this sound: Tiny delicious round four cookies sat on the table. Sounds terrible, doesn’t it? I’ll try again: Four delicious tiny round cookies sat on the table. Ah! So much better. We always order our adjectives by quantity, value/opinion, size, temperature, age, shape, color, origin, and material.

In 1934, a Webster dictionary was published with a made up word, "dord." It wasn't until 1939 that somebody caught it! Words with no meaning show up in the dictionary all the time due to publishing errors. They're known as "ghost words."

Majorly weird things happen with spelling so we're the only ones that have Spelling Bee's. As a Spelling Bee champ, I found it strange that other countries don't participate in such things. Why? Well, their words don't have such random and difficult spellings, in other words, the spelling actually coordinates with the pronunciation of the word. What a thought!

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