Highly Irregular With Arika Okrent

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• English may be spoken by a whopping 1.5 billion ESL speakers around the world, but that doesn't mean it's an "easy" language to ...
• Explore the evolution of English spelling conventions throughout history, and find out why it's such an inconsistent language.
• These days, when we want to know how to spell a word, we have an accepted authority to look to: the dictionary.
• Maybe you've been speaking English all your life, or maybe you learned it later.
• Have you ever stopped to think about how weird the English language can be?

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