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Originally Posted by Galadriel
FRENCH spellings? English spellings are worse. You can never tell if the 'h' is silent, if the 'c' is a 'c', an 's', or a 'k', if 'ch' is actually 'ch' or just 'k', if the 'x' is actually an 'x' or a 'z'...  |
No, that's English pronounciation.
I guess I see the languages differently because I learn new English from storybooks and new French from the teacher. And when the teacher says, for example, "spell
sais", I'm more likely to write
c'est or
s'est or just plainly
ce or
se.
In English, though, I'm ok with spelling the words but sometimes have the wrong pronounciation. I still pronounce "treachery" as
treechery, not
trechery, and "bury" as
bury, not
bary. Just because I read those words before I heard them.
Or let's put it simpler. I know English, I don't know French.