Correct spelling is over-rated
If you've done a bit of genealogy you'll find that the spelling of a surname over the generations is pretty fluid.
And then if you've ever learned a couple of other languages that relate to English (say, a germanic and a latin), it'll dawn on you that "the correct spelling" in English isn't what it seems.
Add to that the "incorrect" English grammar and pronounciation and vocab that is spoken by regional and "minority" communities ...
and you've got yourself a false idol, a wolf in sheep's clothing, an instrument of oppression.
That's what I think of the concept of "correct spelling"! :-)
If you've learned basic Cyrillic or Greek, you'll grok another thinning of the concept of "correct English".
(Last year Hannah (my then 15 y.o.) and I learned to read basic Greek, leading up to her self-funded solo month in Greece).
Do you get my drift, Sandra Norsen, Janine O'Loughlin, Belinda Walters, GD Muller, Marley Wright?
Did Shakespeare write bad English? Chaucer?
Up in ivory towers was argued the number of angels that could dance upon the head of a pin.
From upon high did they look out and see the richness of the world around them, the texture of the forested hills, the wobbly morphing of the arrow of migrating birds?
Re: flauting or flouting?
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