English, the Broken Language

[Invent Yourself <xod@sixgirls.org>]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 2 Sep 2000 pycyn@aol.com wrote:
> 
> > [Will Barton now turn up to tell us again that 90% of all English
> > words can be handled by a small set of spelling rules?] 
> 
> No, but I will: http://www.zompist.com/spell.html .


He's got 56 rules, no handful. And some are quite bizarre; silent letters,
non-local effects, and letters that are to be read in reverse order.



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