By Spelling, Dialects

I agree with Jim. You don't change a language. It's like saying let's ban earthquakes Actually, trying to change something might result in more confusion in the end, because there will probably be certain groups that don't adopt such changes, or not completely, so you'd...

Hwat for what is the original pronunciation and was the only form used in Middle English. In Modern English, many dialects lost the wine-whine distinction, and began pronouncing words spelled "wh" as simply "w", rather thn "hw". The original, conservative form is still around, and is considered...

They have the same meaning, thus they're interchangeable. Here is the fully 'story': The status of ’til versus until and till is often argued about and most style guides have something to say on the matter. The most common belief is that till is a shortened form of until. You can see how this...

>just a way=only a manner A dialect is the special way people from a given area of a country speak and write. Sometimes, the spelling is different, or the meanings are different, or the pronunciation is different. Also,...

I think that there are two issues being confused here with 'standard' English. Standard English with regards to grammar and so on, and a standard English accent. We may speak a regional (non-standard) English accent (this is what the only 12-15% figure is talking about) but most people still use...

Wow, what a lot of nonesense.Is American English simply lazy English with disregard for the fundamentals of the language, or is it a valid simplification of an overly complex and irregular language?Huh? What are you talking about? I was hoping nobody would ask, but since you did, I much...

Mostly only foreigners pronounce the "g" in "foreigner", because adding the "g" was simply a spelling change: in Middle English it was spelled "foreiner", so I don't know of any Modern English dialects that actually add the "g".

>> Native speakers can make mistakes with pronounciation. Unfortunately with English, the spelling does not always give you a clue to the pronounciation, so if people learn a word from seeing it written, they can make mistakes. << Native speakers can of course occasionally make a...

I have trouble figuring out why 'grammar experts' get the blame for these. There are a number of reasons why people might disagree over these usages: colloquial vs written, American vs British, PC vs non-PC, prescriptivism vs descriptivism, and even one or two examples where there are...

----------- bee 3 a : a usually social gathering of people to accomplish cooperatively a specific purpose -- often used in combinations <husking bee> <quilting bee> b : PARTY 10a <a square-dancing bee> c : SPELLING...