That'd go down wel hear, spelung...

[expat]

With all the many words that have alternate and often quite distinct meanings (can you think of any good examples) why don't we just have one word for everything and be done with it? I propose a short word for this purpose so that it's easy to say, what about ich (pronounced ihh). The various meanings can also be conveyed by the tone of voice, e.g. a low growling ich means flip off.

Ichiban idea!

[NotAllThere]

Klew.

HTH.

I'm just reading "The Evolution of Physics" by Einstein. He spells it "clew".

[TimberWolf]

With all the many words that have alternate and often quite distinct meanings (can you think of any good examples) why don't we just have one word for everything and be done with it? I propose a short word for this purpose so that it's easy to say, what about ich (pronounced ihh). The various meanings can also be conveyed by the tone of voice, e.g. a low growling ich means feck off.

[TimberWolf]

What a tit - wonder what the top 10 are - I bet payed, definate and loose are in their.....(did you see what I did their?)

they're

[Sausage Surprise]

What a tit - wonder what the top 10 are - I bet payed, definate and loose are in their.....(did you see what I did their?)

[Pondlife]

Mr Smith, a criminology lecturer, said: "Instead of complaining about the state of the education system as we correct the same mistakes year after year, I've got a better idea.

"University teachers should simply accept as variant spellings those words our students most commonly misspell.

May I suggest taking it a step further and accepting "variant answers" to some of the harder questions in exams too.

Think of the increase in pass rates.

[wobbegong]

I fink is awful the way them kids is bein tort in skool now.
they dont lern nuffink an they is all stewpid an ignorent. them teechers is fik too.
nun of em ave got a klue ow to speek proper or nufink
them poopils is goin to bee a berdun on the sosyity wen they leevs skool an cant fined a propper job like

bl8tes m8. (2 mny wurdz).

narmeen?

[Diver]

Scarily - you seem to find writing like that easy!!!!

Wot u on bowt, i is the mowst litrit pursun on yer

is u dissin me coz i is wite

[Bear]

I fink is awful the way them kids is bein tort in skool now.
they dont lern nuffink an they is all stewpid an ignorent. them teechers is fik too.
nun of em ave got a klue ow to speek proper or nufink
them poopils is goin to bee a berdun on the sosyity wen they leevs skool an cant fined a propper job like

Scarily - you seem to find writing like that easy!!!!

[Diver]

Is this the same lot of happy clappy nutters that earlier this week said we can't call fat kids fat kids any more?

Silly cnuts.

I fink is awful the way them kids is bein tort in skool now.
they dont lern nuffink an they is all stewpid an ignorent. them teechers is fik too.
nun of em ave got a klue ow to speek proper or nufink
them poopils is goin to bee a berdun on the sosyity wen they leevs skool an cant fined a propper job like

[moorfield]

Is this the same lot of happy clappy nutters that earlier this week said we can't call fat kids fat kids any more?

Silly cnuts.

[expat]

Just so long as we don't start spellung "colour" as "color"...

similarly, I am afraid that twelfth should not be twelth, because that loses the fact that it comes from twelve. And no, I'm not going to argu aboot it.

[PRC1964]

Damn, I was all ready to be whipped up into a "Daily Mail immigrant stole my job" rage but it turns out that I pretty much agree with him.

English has always changed and is all the better for it.

[zeitghost]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7546975.stm