English spelling reform

Language Log 2018-05-22

Bro I had to be the dumbest preschooler out there😐 pic.twitter.com/0AGIk1tBa9

β€” Sal Perez (@Sal_Perez4) May 19, 2018

This preschool effort compares favorably with plenty of grown-up systems :-)…

Some of the comments:

In 10th grade I sat at my desk for almost 5 minutes trying to spell counter, Bc I pronounce it like most as β€œcowner”. I wrote cowner in my AP English class.

β€” Emalee D. Egelund M.D. (@EmaleeEgelund) May 21, 2018

He was chrieg his best.

β€” Peter Nygaard (@RetepAdam) May 21, 2018

@mara__iara 😍 You a dimn with yo cute self 😭

β€” Renz πŸ‡΅πŸ‡­ (@renzalisasis) May 21, 2018

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[h/t Adam Rosenthal]

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