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Illustration by Paul Franck, from The Proper Art of Writing (1655).

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bc3f8ce8-d665-447a-8be4-ed4294f784be

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English orthography is insane. It's hard enough for those of us who are native speakers and we usually end up with reasonable spelling but there are exceptions. I would never ever assume someone with spelling errors was less intelligent or make fun of *them personally*. Yes make fun of the weirdness. So many people confuse 'desert' and 'dessert' making a joke about eating sand is fair game IMO. We all make tpyos. Laugh together not at people eh?

I put this in the same category as assuming people with a southern drawl are less intelligent. Stop it.

#Spelling #Orthography #Life #EnglishOrthography #Dyslexia #Language #Linguistics

#Mathober #Mathober2025

The prompt for day 5 was 'Digraph Sink'. In mathematics 'digraph' is an abbreviation for 'directed graph' which is a kind of network made by joining nodes with arrows. A 'digraph sink' is any node which has no arrows that point out of it. If you walk around a digraph by following the arrows then the sinks are the places where you can get stuck.

In linguistics a 'digraph' is instead a pair of letters that make a different sound when written together than you would expect from their individual sounds. Let's draw a digraph digraph where the nodes are the letters of the alphabet, and the arrows represent which pairs of letters form digraphs.

The sinks in this digraph are B, D, F, H, J, K, L, M, V, X, Y and Z.

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