Today i found my favorite example of first language interference: this example of writing English right-to-left #englishspelling #l1interference

Not many people know, but “helicopter” is not composed of “heli” and “copter”, but “helico” (Greek for helix 🧬) and “pter” (Greek for wing 🪽), the latter of which it shares with the dinosaur Pterodactyl 𓅮

#etymology

My friend mispronounced "miscellaneous" with a /k/ sound, but then I realized its shortened form, "misc", is often pronounced with a /k/ sound

What other sounds have a different sounds / spelling when truncated?

combination --> combo
inspiration --> inspo
session --> sesh

#englishspelling

“people from places that have historic cultural tensions with the south of the UK were better at telling whether someone was faking the listener’s own accent.”

www.ft.com/content/2464...

Just now, while half asleep from jet lag, I spelled “asked” as “asqued” 🤔 🧐

TIL: the word “apron” was originally “napron” but English speakers saying “a napron” thought it was “an apron” and here we are. Goes to show how strong the effect of linking sounds is in English!

Today I found myself saying I had been “on a party”… and that’s when I realized having taught and lived so long among Slavic language speakers, their grammatical patterns (in English and their native tongues) had finally influenced my English!

Why do "busy" and "bury" have U's in them if they aren't pronounced like U's? Well, the answer has to do with English dialects in the 1400's and the print press. Read the fascinating story of "busy" and "bury" here sillyli.ng/PlzxHe

At the store, I asked if they sold computer “mouses”, then realized for me, “mice” refers to the animal and “mouses” is the device (1/2)