OOD AV FUNK IT?*

what hope have our children got, or us as parents trying to guide them in the right ways when a so called expert deems it ok to spell words incorrectly?

full BBC report HERE

now i’ll be the first to admit, i have troubles sometimes, usually where the letters i and e are concerned, but to tell us or our kids that it’s ok….thats just madness. as a university law lecturer pointed out, misspelt words could actually change the meaning of a court report, which in turn could have very damaging consequences!

mr smith, a criminal lecturer at bucks uni really ought to have a rethink! it’s bad enough that the youth of today think that text speak (txt spk) is acceptable in the real world, without saying that a total debasement of the english language is also thus!

on a personal note, i’ve just been to wikipedia to try and solve my “i before e” problem, and i’m none the wiser!

A British version is:

when the sound is ee

it’s i before e

except after c

An augmented American version is:

i before e

except after c

or when sounding like “a”

as in neighbor or weigh

There is also a more sarcastic version, which points out a couple of exceptions:

i before e

except after c

we live in a weird society.

 

*apologies to anyone thinking that OOD was a dr who reference!

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