Why Is English So Hard to Spell?

Consider the words knight, night, through, though, bough, cough, rough, come, give, gone.

Take a short pretest about the history of English.  Look at this chart.


Old English spoken for us.


Anglo-Saxon art

Anglo-Saxons vs. Vikings  which leads us to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.


After Norman castles we come to Middle English.

Fold your handout and put it in your daybook.

Homework:

1.  Tomorrow the first draft of your observation paper is due.  It can be either hand-written or typed and PRINTED OUT BEFORE CLASS.  See the blue assignment sheet for length suggestions.

2. TWFTD:  punk . You must look it up in the OED (see link on this blog) and pick a definition and quote from there (start with #1). If you do this from home, you will need to enter passwords to get onto the OED.  The passwords are on the blog under the OED link.