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Let pupils abandon spelling rules, says academic

 
 
hamburgboy
 
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Reply Tue 20 Dec, 2011 04:10 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
journalists and all other scribes better learn these new spelling rules :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16255972

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Virgin Media's electronic programme guide's filter has gone into overdrive.

Over recent days, subscribers to the firm's TV and radio services have been offered the highlights of the "Manchester City v A***nal" game and "Jarvis C**ker's Sunday Service".

Meanwhile, movie lovers could tune into The 39 Steps, a "Hitchc**k remake".

In a statement, a Virgin Media spokeswoman said: "The altered titles have been swiftly an*lysed and we're fixing any remaining glitches."

The firm blamed an "overzealous profanity checker" for the fault.

Subscribers have been posting screenshots of the mistakes on Twitter.

Other examples include the Will Smith movie "Hanc**k", the panel show "Never Mind the Buzzc**ks" and the The Bleak Old Shop Of Stuff, a "Charles D***ens" spoof.


     http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/57419000/jpg/_57419652_vmedia.jpg
McTag
 
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Reply Wed 21 Dec, 2011 05:26 am
@hamburgboy,
I saw that, what a laugh.

They also said the couldn't refer to the well-liked TV programme "The Golden Age of Canals".

Yes, it took me a while to find it, too.

Whoops, edit, it's in the black box, sorry.
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Robert Gentel
 
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Reply Mon 13 Feb, 2012 12:19 am
@Artificial,
Artificial wrote:
Secondly, I definitely do not vouch for a "freedom of spelling", if I may use that term. The spelling and the shape of words are formed in a way that allows foreigners and Englishmen alike to understand the meaning.


I don't support the "freedom of spelling" idea either, but I do think that it's not nearly as important an issue as it used to be (e.g. can learn by spellcheck instead of rote), and also do not agree that English spelling is as well-formed as you seem to think it is.

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Especially when you have the homonyms in place.

He held back the queue.
He held back the cue.


Those aren't homonyms (homonyms are spelled the same), they are homophones.
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