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French orthography, while it is better than the English, still leaves a lot to be desired. Most spelling systems in the world (at least for languages that use alphabets and syllabaries) have a much better mapping between phonemes and graphemes. La c cédille. The diacritic mark under the c has its origin in a small z. [corrected typo]
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>I hate the new format..
I didn't see it; but if they did away with some of the drone-factor: does it have any alternate pronunciations.. does it have any inflected forms.. what's the derivation..
could you spell it for me please?!
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how could you be watchin' TV and be here at the same time?!
I be multi-tasking.
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a much better mapping between phonemes and graphemes - interesting.. I know what phonemes and graphemes are, but how do you rank the mapping?
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ough = uff | ow | oo | oh | awf
Not a particularly good mapping
ough = ookh
Good mapping
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A language like Spanish nearly approaches the supposed ideal of a one to one mapping between phonemes and graphemes. For example, in most Western Hemisphere versions of Spanish {s}, {z}, and (sometimes) {c} map to a phoneme /s/. (However, in Castillian Spanish {s} is /s/ and z (and sometimes {c}) maps to /T/. It is not pronuciation of the word corazon that determines if it's spelled with {s} or {z} in the fifth letter position. /k/ is represented by either a {c} or a {q(u)}, and rarely by {k}. This one is easier on the speller as the vowel which follows determines whether to use one or the other grapheme: que vs comida.
English is much worse. Faldo's -ough example being one of the worst/funniest.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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and there's this alternate spelling of fish, attributed to GB Shaw.
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~ 
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ROTFL! I mean, heh®
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