Surly this carnt be right?

[NicolaDeLaHaye]

Picking up on the 'carnt" post earlier (drives me nuts, obviously people who write it don't understand the fact it's a contraction) I'm sick of seeing surly instead of surely. It makes me very surly with people who do it!

And yesterday I saw "he's dad is called Jim and he's mum is called Karen" ...

I don't buy dyslexia as a reason. It's too widespread. But I don't understand it.

When I was at primary school, my first teacher told my mum that it drove her mad when she told parents about their child's naughty behaviour and they said "He gets it from he's side".
It became a family joke. We didn't hear it very often but it seems to be everywhere now.

That's phonics for you.

Not so much 'say what you see' as 'spell what you think you hear'.

I have known several women who were teachers of infants. I don't actually know what is expected of 'phonics' in the National Curriculum now, but in my inexpert way I have thought phonics means that you can sound a word out. I have also thought that at one time there was 'look and say'. It seemed to me that there was something of a 'phonics' v 'look and say' attitude out there at one time. One day I said to one of these teachers,"Look and say or phonics?" She replied, "BOTH of course, because you can just sound out some English words and you can only look and say some of the other words". Slight de-rail.

But his and he's are completely different vowel sounds. Or is there a UK accent(s) where they sound the same?

I saw “earnt” a few days ago, repeatedly, so it wasn’t a spelling mistake.

My friends’ parents from inner SE London (Bermondsey & Rotherhithe) all pronounce his as he’s. But they all know to spell it his. Just an accent thing with them which I guess in younger generations has transmuted into a spelling thing and become more widespread as that (previously highly particular to the immediate locality) accent has pervaded across other districts.

There will be, that's responsible for could of and would of.

Urgh my xh writes carnt, ridiculous

I'm in the NE, the amount of people who type A instead of I is crazy ie A need a holiday, a carnt wait. Mind. Blown