Re: Spellling mistakes.
Well obviously I do! use ms word's spellcheck system when writing things for publication such as my thesisor indeed when I write book reviews or articles. The principle problem with the db is that since I have to hand code all the html, running a spellcheck constantly flags the code (heck html in ms word is a bit loopy anyway which is why I use wordpad for writing the entries).
I will occasionally copy words into ms word to check their spelling, which is indeed what I did with voluntiere, but I can't do that with the complete entry.
Regarding Braille displays, well I don't unfortunately own one due to high cost and general ability to manage without, but equally it's actually been reading braille that buggered my spelling due to reading in grade 2. Heck, I still! occasionally slip up and write say little with one t.
I will also add that spelling is a regional thing, and I use British varients, for example thorough, colour or armour wit h O U R, not O R as the American spelling, so it is possible that some people's spellchecks if set to American English flag up mistakes that are not mistakes (i've seen this happen on several occasions).
It is true about English being a stupid language, indeed id I often have discussions with my Italian teacher about the fact that English is irregular in it's applications of gramatical rules, ---- in fairness Italian also has some random irregularities, for example there are some verbs that have random irregular forms and some that don't, (though in some ways Structurally different to Spanish, this is one major difference I notice, since Spanish was far more regular).
Interestingly enough though, Italian, like spanish is entirely phonetic. Myself, I'm still of the opinion that English should be phoneticised, that all words should just be spelt as they sound, not by some random rules setup by a nutty Scotsman 5 hundred years ago. Btw, this is ap parently why the g h is used in so many English words like Thorough, because Samual Jonson had a distinct scotish bur. I've also heard that many of our modern english spellings aare borrowed from Middle English, but middle English iis! phonetic.
For example the middle english word for knight is spealt exactly the same way, but apparently pronounced ka-'nig'hit, rather like the German for King.
So yes, English is Silly!
As I've said I don't mind correcting stuff, however equally I'm not going to loose too much sleep over a few buggered letters, heck even when i was writing my thesis and my research assistant (who has a masters in English Language), was looking over it and querying every single possible vague gramatical foyble, there were various spellings that she admitted were just personal choice, eg, i s e or I Z E at the end of words like initialize. Even I'm not completely sure on that one since while using the s is the trad itional British spelling, z is closer to the way the words are actually pronounced.
I think the thing that irritates me most about English spellings is that we so often reduce vowels to a flat uh sound, even when this is a completely different vowel to what is written. for example, most people do not actually say the word evil as "ee vill" but as something closer to "ee vul" likewise, a word like taken is not said as "tay ken" but as "tay kun"
This actually comes up a lot in singing since it's far easier to have your audience able to hear your words if you sing the vowels as written, rather than as pronounced, but if you overdo this you end up sounding completely artificial and lacking in emotion, ---- I recently had a peace of very angry orotorio recitative where I actually had to tell people to "repent! of the! EEE vill!" not Repent of the evil"
And this gets even when worse when you add in need to al ter mouth position in order to sing higher, for instance when singing the part from the Messiah "every valley shal be exaulted!" I actually have to change three quarters of the way through a long run to "exaaaalted!" just to be certain that my A flat will not take too much muscular pressure.
indeed I suspect it is my singing which is the reason why most people say I have a very propper and somewhat overly posh accent and way of speaking .
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