The Alphabet Soup
26 alphabets to the English language? Or 26 letters to the alphabet of the English language?
the alphabet: a collection of letters or characters and symbols that make up the written form of a language....In the words of my 7th grade English teacher...there are 26 letters to the English alphabet,and not 26 alphabets.
addendum: Notice that the letter C, is as redundant as a letter can be...most of its use comes with the sounds that are similar to either S or K....
with the notable exception being....
"not to kastigate the letter but speaking in kut and dried terms, if we want to eat sereal and kut up our bread with cheese, it has to be our choise, right?"
2 comments:
a proposal: http://www.pbtweb.com/alpha26/index.html
Yeah well, its about time for some such proposal...you are right...English aint just a 26-letter alphabet...its something like a 50-letter alphabet like mentioned in that link..
What we also need is probably some sort of phonetic emphasis in the alphabet, to get over the put/cut/but kind of confusion in pronunciation...
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