Tear in eye your dress you’ll tear. So shall I! Oh, hear my prayer, Pray, console your loving poet, Make my coat look new, dear, sew it? Just compare heart, beard and heard, Dies and diet, lord and ...

When children are taught to read and write though phonics they have to remember many exceptions, so-called 'sight words'. In addition, the linguist David Crystal estimated that almost half of all ...

Help Children Crack the Reading Code (Part 1 of 2) It’s easy for you to read to, too, and two or eye, I, you and ewe and get right to the meaning. But how do you explain the logic of English spelling ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. English, we have pointed out repeatedly, is not a logical language. That hasn’t prevented attempts to impose ...