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Altogether, a small-scale video recapitulation of Gerard Nolst Trenité's 1922 poem "The Chaos". More from Bobby Finn is here.
Jeremy Jay has a somewhat analogous series about French and Spanish, but more focused on homophony than orthography, and with a demonic rather than a pedagogical vibe…
Laura Morland said,
June 2, 2025 @ 3:56 pm
As luck would have it, the clever (and trilingual) Roya just published her own take on English spelling: https://youtube.com/shorts/fqLVoJdAwO4?si=iyBAYdvBVrpTHo1n
JMGN said,
June 3, 2025 @ 1:28 pm
My fave:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ough_(orthography)
charles antaki said,
June 3, 2025 @ 3:10 pm
Nice one, JMGN.
When I worked at Loughborough University, saying it like the natives was a standing challenge to international visitors (and some national ones too).
David Morris said,
June 3, 2025 @ 3:21 pm
Several more examples: https://neverpureandrarelysimple.wordpress.com/2017/11/11/ough/
JMGN said,
June 3, 2025 @ 3:32 pm
Page 1572 of the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language reads:
"Through" contains three symbols: composite th, simple r, aand composite ough.
David Marjanović said,
June 3, 2025 @ 5:33 pm
…and she overlooked the spellings created by incompetent etymologists (could, island…) and the naturally homegrown insanity (ea in the video above, ough in the link above…)
Francois Lang said,
June 6, 2025 @ 10:06 am
This kind of video is a specialty of
https://www.youtube.com/@loic.suberville
who is one of my favorite Instagram personalities!