An aspect of English spelling that fascinates me is the existence of what I call “fossil words”— words in which a letter is embedded like a fossil in the rock—there, but no longer pronoun...
In English, the digraph ae functions chiefly as a suffix to denote the plural of Latin borrowings that retain a hint of their original “Latin-ness,” chiefly in the realm of scientific vocabul...
https://www.dailywritingtips.com/how-to-pronounce-the-digraph-ae-in-english/
The past tense of the verb to lead (pronounced /leed/) gives some English-speakers as much trouble as the past tenses of lay and lie. The prevalence of past tense led misspelled as lead on amateu...
https://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-past-tense-of-lead-is-spelled-led/
A recent comment on a past post, “Worshiping and Kidnapping” made me doubt my sanity: You note that Merriam-Webster lists worshiped and worshiping as preferred spellings in the US, but my M-W...
https://www.dailywritingtips.com/worshipped-and-worshipping-revisited/
Often, the English language appears to have been invented by a malicious entity. But although Noah Webster—the American lexicographer who complicated things, rather than simplifying them, by ad...
https://www.dailywritingtips.com/3-types-of-spelling-challenges/