But it's wrong half the time, and deeply misleading.
Learning shitty pedantic rules is no substitute for actually learning how to spell words. Not that it matters that much anyway nowadays. The only reason we have such crazy spelling in English is to stop Johnny Foreigner (oh look, there's another one) from learning it in a couple of months.
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tomsk,
Tue 27 Sep 2005, 13:11,
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Yes...
...particular credit should be given to the old gent who invented so many ways to pronounce the letters "...ough". That'll confuse those darn foreign types!
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RiverChelt,
Tue 27 Sep 2005, 13:13,
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couple of months
PPfft..3 weeks is more than enough
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olivier8 (euroloon),
Tue 27 Sep 2005, 13:45,
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