19th December
Your spell checker can only do so much to get your real meaning across.
It’s easy to sound importanterer than you really are!
Just because you use lots of big words, there is no guarantee that your message will sound any more professional or any more convincing! Let brevity be your watchword.
English can be hard!
English is a forgiving language. It has many speakers who can make themselves understood but then always a throws up surprises to confound the most eloquent of linguists.
Punctuation!
Don’t forget that punctuation is important. It’s the difference between helping your Uncle Jack, off a horse and helping your Uncle Jack off a horse!
The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité
The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité This is a classic English poem containing about 800 of the worst irregularities in English spelling and pronunciation.Will Snellen wrote a PDF version using the phonetic alphabet. You can hear some of it pronounced mostly correctly by “JimmyJams” in the video The Chaos Of English Pronunciation by Gerard Nolst Trenité on YouTube. You