The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for December 21, 2012
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Transcript:
Teacher: Our vocabulary word for today is "phonetically". It is spelled p-h-o-n-e-t-i-c-a-l-l-y. And it means spelling something the way it sounds. Teacher: Questions? Yes - Hurricane Hattie? Hurricane Hattie O'Hara: Why isn't phonetically spelled phonetically?
Plods with ...™ over 11 years ago
Good point
gordrogb Premium Member over 11 years ago
Eye donut git ete.
Allan CB Premium Member over 11 years ago
What sick bastard thought “lisp” would be a good word, to describe someone with a lisp?!
sundogusa over 11 years ago
Smart kid!
Perkycat over 11 years ago
And that, folks, is why it is so hard to be a teacher. (and even a parent)
scottjsmith.peng over 11 years ago
Zegackly!
JoePhan over 11 years ago
It’s spelled that way because it comes from a Greek root, and the Greek alphabet doesn’t have an equivalent to the letter F, so words using that sound are spelled with ph. (In classical Greek, the letter phi is pronounced closer to ph than to f, which is where that came from.)
Tin Can Twidget over 11 years ago
I do, for one!
jazzmoose over 11 years ago
Those people who told you there were no stupid questions? They lied.
No New Wars over 1 year ago
And why is ‘abbreviation’ such along word?