25 LETTERS IN THE ALPHABET
AND I BET WE CAN DO BETTER.
Why the hell do we need a C in our alphabet? You could easily replace it with a K and 90% of the words would sound the same: kar, kat, kape, klerk, kandy, bakk, rakk, etc. In the few incidences where K would not fit we could substitute and S: Synthia, rase, ransid…
While we are at it let’s drop the U following the Q – it still keeps the sound: qeer, qeen, qack, qake. It would make SCRABBLE a lot easier.
For those of you that feel the meaning would be changed you should remember that spoken language came thousands of years before someone tried to phoneticize (my word - my spelling) it. It is the sound and the context in the sentence that can define the word…At least that what I tell my wife about my creative spelling when she edits my writing or we play SCRABBLE.
the Ol’Buzzard
Lost at scrabble last night, eh?
ReplyDeleteOne of the things that makes English difficult for ESL is the LACK of letters. English has 26 letters but about 60 to 80 phonetic sounds, so we have many letter combinations with quite different sounds when spoken, but short written words. The Cyrillic alphabet has 33 letters which have sounds but not names. What you see is what you say but words have to be very long in order to differentiate them both written and oral. could be worse. Could be Chinese.
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