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The wonders of English spelling (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

too often it's some proprietary phonetic spelling which barely makes sense even in the target dialect. yet they have the audacity to use square brackets for it.

Worcestershire (noun)

[ wurs - teir - sheh ]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

These I totally hate. As a non native speaker, I have no intuition or at least IPA would be much easier for me. It's called international for a reason. Good to know that native speakers have problems too, or maybe not good, you decide.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

are you having trouble figuring out how to pronounce words because spelling rules aren't consistent and don't make sense? here's how to pronounce them in a different spelling that follows the same rules.