{"id":1201,"date":"2016-03-15T07:45:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T07:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/superior-english.com\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2016-03-15T07:45:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T07:45:14","slug":"english-spelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superior-english.com\/en\/2016\/03\/15\/english-spelling\/","title":{"rendered":"English Spelling"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you hear the word Rechtschreibungsreform, <\/em>what comes to mind?\u00a0Love it? Hate it? Couldn’t care less? Have you admitted defeat and adopted the spelling dass<\/em>\u00a0or do you rebelliously jot down an\u00a0\u00df<\/em> at the end of the word for old time’s sake?<\/p>\n

Well, you may have read that the French have recently instituted a spelling reform of their own. You might think that sounds pretty smart considering how difficult French words are to spell (at least\u00a0I thought so in\u00a0college).\u00a0The changes will mainly affect the use of the circumflex and reduce the number of words that are spelled with a hyphen.<\/p>\n

But speaking of languages\u00a0whose learners are forced to slog their way through\u00a0orthographic anarchy, what about English? Well, as a native speaker all I can say is thank goodness for spellcheck. Whether you choose the American or British spellings (center\u00a0v\/s center, curb v\/s kerb) as long as you use those spelling consistently, you’re good to go. After all, most English speakers are pretty horrible spellers themselves (see spellcheck).\u00a0If you know the differences between\u00a0they’re, their<\/em> and their<\/em> and your, you’re<\/em>, you’re honestly doing better than most native speakers.<\/p>\n

Check out this article from National Public Radio for more on this topic, including some spelling changes in English (especially American English) that have caught on and older spellings that have endured:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/02\/24\/467218639\/new-changes-to-french-beg-the-question-why-are-english-spellings-so-weird<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you hear the word Rechtschreibungsreform, what comes to mind?\u00a0Love it? Hate it? Couldn’t care less? Have you admitted defeat and adopted the spelling dass\u00a0or do you rebelliously jot down an\u00a0\u00df at the end of the word for old time’s sake? Well, you may have read that the French have recently instituted a spelling reform … Continue reading English Spelling<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","no-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t