A Journalism Joke
First the comic:
Also first: Do you see the error in the last speech balloon?
Technically “grafitti” is a plural (singular is “grafitto”) but the verb is singular. The verb should be “were.”
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A Goof that’s Not Even Part of the Humor
I guess I’m just feeling grouchy. Do you see the error?
https://www.gocomics.com/tex/2023/04/12
First and last panels.
- Sheer means pretty much transparent
- Shear means a large sissors.
Harrumpf.
An Easy Word to Misspell
And they spelled it correctly! Well, the cartoonist spelled it correctly. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone pronounce both s’s.
I happen to like brussels sprouts, btw.
Another English Teacher Comic
You see both solecisms, right?
I don’t need to point out the misspelling and the misplaced comma, do I?
A Plug for an Article Too Long to Post here
It’s about English’s complicated spelling rules. Here’s a paragraph from about halfway down to get you started. The whole article is worth the read.
The answer to the weirdness of English has to do with the timing of technology. The rise of printing caught English at a moment when the norms linking spoken and written language were up for grabs, and so could be hijacked by diverse forces and imperatives that didn’t coordinate with each other, or cohere, or even have any distinct goals at all. If the printing press had arrived earlier in the life of English, or later, after some of the upheaval had settled, things might have ended up differently.
https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-the-english-spelling-system-so-weird-and-inconsistent
Here’s the link again: https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-the-english-spelling-system-so-weird-and-inconsistent
—and here’s a picture:
