+78 As a someone who is not an english native speaker, it's really wild that english spelling is so badly irregular you can make a competition out of it. amirite?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Try French.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

French is easy, you just have to ignore the second, decorative half of the words.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

queue

by Anonymous 3 years ago

4/5 of those letters are useless.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

spanish with extra vowels

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Try learning to read Chinese and Japanese at the same time.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Fun fact: English descriptions of speech impediments make the impediment clear by someone who has said impediment because English is a cruel mistress Lisp, soft palette, stutter etc

by Anonymous 3 years ago

I want you to listen to yourself

by Anonymous 3 years ago

And wilder still is that we have kids compete in this competition when more than half of the adults in the country can spell worth a CRAP

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Eh I consider good spelling a nearly useless talent.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

It's useful in writing a good curriculum since it makes you seem more professional. That's about it though

by Anonymous 3 years ago

You have to be 'good enough' but anything over that is just a novelty.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

It's not really irregular.... you just have to know or figure out at which point in history they stole a word from another language (Danelaw period, Norman period, etc...).

by Anonymous 3 years ago

English spelling bees are quite unique in how etymology is critical to knowing the correct spelling rule As I typed this I just realized how close etymology is to entomology, which doesn't really help in the study of spelling *bees*

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Grüezi, may I introduce you german: „Des Weiteren ist das Übrige auszuschließen und im Übrigen sind die Ausschlüsse zu erweitern und die Erweiterungen sind ausschließlich zu erübrigen. Erübrigungen werden des Weiteren ausgeschlossen. Ausgeschlossene Erweiterungen sind übrig. Übrige Ausschlüsse werden erweitert. Erweiterte Erübrigungen werden ausgeschlossen. Auszuschließende Erübrigungen werden erweitert.".

by Anonymous 3 years ago

There, their, if your not certain open that they're curtain.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

I was just telling my mom I heard a non native speaker accidentally say the N word when trying to pronounce a country in Africa.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Namibia 🇳🇦???

by Anonymous 3 years ago