To 'aitch' ... or not to 'haitch'?
Dec 10, 2018
3 minutes
I know a teacher, now retired, who, after a punctilious career correcting the young, still remains as baffled as ever by the skill with which most of her charges eventually learned to read and write.
Her amazement is understandable. Our native tongue overflows with pitfalls.
Consider the inexplicableness (for a child) of a language in which the plural of “goose” is “geese” while the plural of “mongoose” is “mongooses.” Imagine the similar complexity involved in the fact that one
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