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English had a big French spelling phase, so a bunch of our words have entirely different phonetic sounds vs their spelling. I constantly mess this up. Go ahead, make me spell bourgoise or bureacracy the first time. Nope failed again! Conscious/Conscience are definitely in that category.
For me I'm not sure if Math or Maths are correct
Me with a time machine: going back and shooting William the Bastard in the head to save the English language
Use a Kuh-nife when you do it, you bold Kuh-night of Time!
You're not a real leftist if you can spell bourgeiouiuiouiise on the first try
Burgersee
Boojwah.
First off, amazing username.
Anyway, a tip to spell bourgeoisie that someone here recommended was to sing it to the tune of the Mickey Mouse song. Which, embarrassingly, is the only way I can spell it.
B O U ... R G E ... O I S I E! Bourgeoisie! Bourgeoisie! Who steals the surplus value from you and me? B O U R G E O I S I E!
And then yeah if you need bourgeois just lop off the final I E
Young people don't know how to sing the Mickey mouse song
bour-gee-ois-ee is how I remember it
Intellectuals are haram. Ask Gramsci.
"Grey/gray" trips me the fuck up and I'm an English teacher.
I never get that right!
If it's in Burgerland it's gray.
If it's in Jelliedeelland it's grey.
Laughs in William the Conqueror
Fun page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences
North Americans contract 'mathematics' to 'math', most other places shorten it to 'maths'. I don't even know if one is more "correct" or if the entire word 'mathematics' was a mistake. Honestly, the North Americans might be right about this one.