How shuld wee spel??

"The fact that through, rough, dough, plough, hiccough and trough all end with -ough, yet none of them sound the same as any of the others, is the sort of thing that has been vexing poets and learners of English for quite some time." (Shea, 2010)

Spelling has been something that has affected my life for a long time. My dad and brothers all struggle with spelling things correctly and have always spelled more phonetically. How do words sound and why can't they be spelled that way? The Spanish, for example, use every letter in the word. "ll" is a "yuh" sound and so on. There aren't silent letters and weird spellings. Children as well as certain adults struggle all the way through school because they spell things incorrectly. Or they use the wrong form. For example: to, too, and two... These "rule breakers" constantly slow down progress. Children have to spend their entire school career learning how to speak snd write correct English! All the way through high school! Children should be able to work creatively and not have to focus on correctness at all times. I'm not saying that English shouldn't be uniform and standardized. But it should be just that, STANDARDIZED!




Citations:
Shea, A. (2010, January 22). The keypad solution. The New York Times, Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24FOB-onlanguage-t.html

Anderson, M. (Artist). (n.d.). Baby cartoon #6019. [Web Drawing]. Retrieved from http://www.andertoons.com/cartoon/6019/