Thursday 16 February 2006
My second-grader showed me his spelling words book. He has to write sentences using the words, and underline them. From the first entry back in September, a classic:
Where’s their head?
There’s their head!
They’re headless.
Thursday 16 February 2006
My second-grader showed me his spelling words book. He has to write sentences using the words, and underline them. From the first entry back in September, a classic:
Where’s their head?
There’s their head!
They’re headless.
Comments
He's smarter than 75% of the internet population already!
Make it 75% of the native english speakers. You wouldn't believe how bad it is in Britain (or should I say "its" </grin>).
Definitely better than 75% of Americans. There terrible with stuff like this.
It's much easier for non-native speakers to distinguish "they're", "there" and "their". After all, they're all spelled differently. (I tend to pronounce them differently too, which is probably not correct.)
As a non-native speaker, I can't stand too many seemingly naitive speaker mixing up than and then. Heck, once a high school girl told me that even her English teacher does not know which is which. Well, it's just *one of the* things, of course.
Marius, "they're" and "there" indeed /are/ pronounced differently :)
(random trivia from Manchester: the Gorillaz hit "Dare" had the title changed from the original "There" because the featured singer couldn't correctly pronounce "th" for the life of him...)
In pirate speek, "thars thar head"
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