[Magdalen] Bow-Wow.

[Scott Knitter]

In about Grade 6, a friend and I thought we had a good chance at
winning the school spelling bee.

I sailed through several rounds and then ran aground on the word
helicopter (I spelled it helicoptor).

My friend developed a problematic habit with -tion and -ion nouns. She
seemed to be dealt many of these, and she'd spell them carefully up to
the suffix and then over-confidently and swiftly end the word with
"-oin" instead of "ion." R-E-P-E-T...OIN!

On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
<magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> It's amazing that anyone can be a master of English language  spelling.
> I understand it is such a nightmare because many spellings were
> already codified before the "Great Vowel Shift" caused the  pronunciation
> and the spellings to be at odds.




-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA