I saw this on the BBC website and thought you might find it useful/entertaining. Suffice to say that English is a language that seems (to me) to be full of contradictions. I see my children spelling things incorrectly because they sound correct – the joys of phonics (which didn’t work for me. I had to learn spellings by rote and memory)!
Follow the link below – if you can bear it (definitely not bare it)!!