solitude sunday. our day to spend time with a book. just about everyone has a book on a shelf that they have meant to read. that's the goal of solitude sunday. take those long awaited reads and dive right in; even if it's just fifteen minutes once a week on solitude sunday.
my reading session with bill bryson's the mother tongue continued today with chapters six, seven and eight (short chapters and more time!) which delved into pronunciation, varieties of english and spelling.
*coined description of how we talk: slurvian. wetalklikethis. we. don't. talk. like. this.
*fashion rather than science influences how words are pronounced.
*the british don't move their lips when they talk.
*there are two forms of symbols to represent words: alphabet and pictographic/ideographic.
*spelling was flexible until the advent of printing. then spelling became fixed and more or less standard.
what are you reading? share your book with the whimsey project!
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