Why the Spelling of Words in the English Language Is So Complicated
by Lori Dorn from Laughing Squid on (#6SQJD)
InstructorGideonofLetThemTalkTVtalks about why the English language is so complicated when it comes to spelling. He cites a few famous examples of bad spellers, explains how the English language is an amalgamation of a number of geographical origins and influences, and notes how the Great Vowel Shift affected how words are spelled and pronounced.
Dan Quayle couldn't spell potato', Ernest Hemingway couldn't spell definite, Winston Churchill was a bad speller and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Why is English spelling so weird? We look at the history from the Anglo-Saxon period to the modern day.