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Jul 3, 07:37 AM: The Word of the day

OK so I’m super pissed about this, check it out. I needed to use the past tense of the word ‘Cancel’ here on the website which I was thinking was spelled with a double L. I had typed the word into MS-Word, which immediately told me that ‘cancelled’ was misspelled; it wanted the word spell with just one L, ‘canceled’. While one part of my brain was saying “that can’t be right, that would be can-seal-d” another part of my brain was trying to squeeze an X into the word somewhere so I decided to side with the computer.

As I type this I see that it’s not doing that anymore which isn’t exactly calming me down. Now it’s telling me both spellings are correct. Consulting Dictionary.com I see that it was the nerve to say that both spellings are correct also. On one hand this seams to fit with the total lack of logic this language has to offer but on the other it’s wholly unacceptable. Lets fix it!

First of all lets look at the letter C. How can you have a letter that is pronounced with out actually using that letter? Neither ‘see’ nor ‘sea’ have a C in them. What sound would that thing actually make? It can’t be ‘kuh’ as in cat, the letter K already makes that noise. Or is it C that makes the noise and K needs to change, C does come first in the alphabet. I’m gonna pick on C for now, I might swap later. The only value I see for C is when used with an H to make the ‘chuh’ sound like in church (twice). OK, so new rule in English 2.0 C = ‘chuh’ i.e. church is now spelled curc.

Back to the word of the day. Now that C can not make K or S noises what was formerly spelled ‘cancel’ is now spelled ‘kansel’. And my original problem of one L or two is simply ‘kanseld’.

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Tags: spelling, logic, dictionary