Reality Check by Dave Whamond for November 13, 2022

you mean ‘doughnut’?

Leave out the ‘Do’ just call him “NUTS”

At least this idiot didn’t assign a gender to every word

Here hear, now! You no better. Wee just kneed to think it threw. Ewe can bare two think about it this won thyme. Take a brake. Its aloud. Aisle weight. Eye can bee idol and prey four piece for us awl. Their is know prophet in waist. Meat me inn the mourning. Its knight and I tale tails to sum at this our.

Consolable ≠ Inconsolable

Famous ≠ Infamous

Operable ≠ Inoperable

But for some reason flammable and inflammable mean the same thing.

It all makes cents!

Justifiable Humorcide comes to mind.

Then there’s Gramma and Grammar.

I’ve always felt sorry for anyone trying to learning the English language. It is very confusing, especially knowing that there are different meanings with the same word.

“What this country needs is ‘Newspeak’ from 1984!” said nobody (hopefully) ever.

If you like this strip then you might like this poem. The Chaos" by G. Nolst Trenite, http://www.i18nguy.com/chaos.html

I put a bomb and comb in the tomb.

I’ve been obsessing over move, love, and clove all sounding different.

I’ll have to come back and comment on this maybe after I’ve had more caffeine…

… englishing is hard!

I’ve also noticed a green plaid shirt and we do this over at Close To Home… soooooo,

GREEN PLAID ALERT! EVERYBODY HAS TO DO A SHOT!

Finally, someone to blame for my dyslexia.

Donut rock the boat, Morty.

Grate two sea ewe awl hear. :)

Fun with etymology … check out this video on YouTube by “RobWords” to see who’s whose to blame for silent letters in words …

https://youtu.be/j07f-cKWRtk

So much of that is just playn RONG!!!

That’s sick. Both in it’s original meaning and in it’s current slang use.

My horse is bound to be homeward bound once he’s no longer bound to the hitching post.

And some wonder why English is so hard to learn as a second language, many native speakers get it wrong.

Fantastic!?

GHOTI spells FISH phonetically. Take the “gh” from enough and you have “F”. Take the “o” as pronounced in women and you have “I”. Take the “ti” as in notion and you have “sh”. GHOTI = FISH.

Plurals are just as bad.

Goose becomes geese, but moose doesn’t become meese.

Ox become oxen, but we don’t say foxen or boxen.

Louse & mouse become lice & mice, but you can’t own several hice,

what about desert and dessert

One of my favorite classes in school was English grammar. I went on to minor in English and then taught English for a few years. Yes, the language can be confusing, but not impossible to learn. I mean, how hard is it to learn contractions and use them properly. “It’s” is a contraction for “it is.” “Its”, is possessive. It’s (it is), fun to watch a dog wag its (possessive), tail. Now how hard is that? The grammar lesson for today is over now. :-)

From what I’ve seen in gocomics lately quite a few cartoonists could do with a spelling and grammar reminder course