Anorak Professor John Wells Explains The Nu English Idiom
A WORD now from Friend of Anorak Professor John Wells, who though not affiliated to Anorak speeks 4 mani ov us:
“Text messaging, email and internet chat rooms are showing us the way forward for English,” he said. “Let’s stop worrying if people sometimes spell ‘you’ as ‘u’, ‘your’ and ‘you’re’ both as ‘ur’, and ‘whose’ and ‘who’s’ both as ‘whos’.”
Anorak has been at the vanguard of Nu English for an age. Go on:
“Let’s rationalise the use of doubled consonants. If ‘ballad’ has double l, why should we not be allowed (if we wish) to spell ‘salad’ with double l too?
“If ‘barrel’ has two rs, why can’t ‘carol’ have them? If ‘poppy’, why not the same in ‘copy’? The teaching of literacy in schools is a major worry.”
Professor John Wells will be presented with his Anorak Dotrite dis Fryday…
Posted: 9th, September 2008 | In: Reviews Comments (23) | TrackBack | Permalink
