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My contribution to the theme of "Half Beast". Toads may look gross and all warty, but they are kinda cute and funny too. You never know which one may be your prince! This is actually my valentine. If you like it go over to my blog (sagworks.wordpress.com) and you can download the print your own "toadally cool" pdf (foldable card and custom envelope)
--sagworks | cut paper illustrations
By: Stephanie,
on 11/7/2007
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By Anatoly Liberman
Confusing as English spelling may be, it has one well-publicized, even if questionable, merit: it tells us something about the history of the language. For example, sea and see were indeed pronounced differently in the past. This fact is of no importance to a modern speaker of English but can be put to use in a course “Spelling as Archeology.” In other cases, modern spelling only puzzles and irritates. For example, most of my undergraduate students believe that the preterit of lead is lead (like read ~ read), though they never misspell bled and fled. We are heirs not only to the pronunciations of long ago but also to the absurdities of what may be called learned tradition. (more…)
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