For Steve
 

So, do you struggle with spelling and pronunciating English words? Well, you should be excused, because the language is nuts.:-j

But at least we don't have to worry if a chest of drawers is female, and a woman's drawers male, or heavens above - neither! And plurals are pretty easy too. :03:

pff, real languages use 3 genders :O:

I already knew a lot of that, and a lot of it is silly. That said, you should have known better than to direct the title at me.

It's "pronouncing". :O:

What's the third one? :hmmm:

I think it's "undecided".

George Bernard Shaw was an avid proponent of spelling reform. He made a case that, given existing spelling of other words, the word 'fish' should be spelled 'ghoti':


http://www.nuspel.org/phonics1c.html


I have long enjoyed the work of Shaw (incidentally, Shaw was a close personal friend of T. E. Lawrence aka "Lawrence of Arabia") and I rank him up with other great social cmmentators/authors such as Mark Twain...


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Vario sermone.

I can't understand why that farmer in the GEICO TV commercial can't spell kow ... that's just plain stupid :D

A neuter. A thing without any gender. And the best thing is there are no rules why a word would be masculine, feminine or neuter (which triggers one of the three corresponding noun markers, you only have one: "the"). You have to learn that with the vocabulary.:yeah:

COW
C O W E I E I O:haha:

Heck, even many of the English have trouble with the English language :)

Aye, particularly Geordies. :O:

Highlighted the relevant wording from my post, just for you. :O:

She'll be right :)