Someone please let me be the first to string this guy up by his Buster Browns:
Children are being held back at school because they are forced to memorise irregular spellings and learn how to use the apostrophe, a leading academic will claim this week.... Professor Wells said that the apostrophe was an equal waste of time. "Instead of an apostrophe we could just leave it out (it's could become its) or leave a space (so we'll would become we ll). Have we really nothing better to do with our lives than fret about the apostrophe?"
Let pupils abandon spelling rules, says academic
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Let pupils giv up spelling rules. There to hard.
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Not only do I think this is a ridiculous idea, but the suggestions are filled with errors. For instance:
"Drop the final e from words if the preceding vowel sound is short: Give becomes giv but love remains love."
Huh? The "o" in "love" is short, not long.
"Embrace Americanisms
Many people already use an s in “practice”, as in the US."
Spelling "practice" with an s isn't an Americanism--it's the British spelling.
I have to admit, learning to spell in Spanish was much easier than learning to spell English. There are no exceptions to the rules. However, English isn't the only language that's difficult to spell. French is a nightmare, for example.
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