I Before E Except....

The English language is a crazy, ridiculous thing.  Really. 

 

I am pretty great at English, spelling and all those crazy grammar rules (no, you cannot tell from my blog because here I write like I talk and I like it like that), but it took years of practice. 

 

Anddd... now I have to teach those crazy things to my daughter!!

 

For example:

• "I before E except after C unless it's in neighbor or weigh."  and actually any other word that rhymes with neighbor or weigh like sleigh, freight, etc.  Oh, but scIEnce is some weird exception. 
• There are so many words that are spelled exactly the same but for some reason when they take on a different meaning we sound them out differently.
• Wind up the toy. 
• The wind was strong today.
• The object is trash.
• The judge objected.
• The present was wrapped.
• Present the gift.
• Words with OO can be sounded out at least 4 different ways.
• book, foot, hood
• boom, doom, noon
• floor, door
• flood, blood
• Words with silent letters.
• gnat, know, knee, psychology, debt, hour, listen
• Words that contain "ough" but don't sound the same.
• bough, trough
• thought, bought
• through
• though, dough
• cough
• enough, tough
• Words that sound the same, but are spelled differently.
• seen, scene
• their, they're, there
• isle, I'll aisle
• ail, ale
• hear, here
• How we pluralize things.
• mouse=mice
• goose=geese
• moose=moose
• person=people
• dog=dogs
• cat=cats

Ok, well I'm done for now :) 

Did I mention though that I am such a huge sucker for punctuation, spelling and grammar?  I mean to the point that I will avoid going to a place if I get their ad and they have spelling or grammatical errors.  Really.  :)  (I better really spell check this baby before I hit post!)







(stop clubbing, baby seals)

And my FAVORITE:

 

Is there anything that you teach that just frustrates you and makes you want to laugh that "I'm going crazy laugh"?  HAHAHAHA!!  (did you hear the craziness)