Liabilities Of English Language

Troublesome Idioms:-

•         I’m not going to stand for that
•         Be here in nothing flat
•         Sitting in the dark
•         By and large
•         Piece of cake
•         Bark up the wrong tree
•         Beating around the bush

Verb Particles:-

•         Make out
•         Make up
•         Live up
•         Live down
•         Sleeping in
•         Sleeping out
•         Sleeping it off

English Spelling words in World:-

•       English spelling is only 60% phonemic
•       It is 40% non phonemic

  Example:-

             Ghoti =Fish (Gh from rough, O from women, T from nation )

Different Spellings of One Phoneme:-

             /i/ can be represented by following spellings:

•     Grieve 
•     Deceive 
•     Mean
•     Machine
•     He

Same spelling represented by different phonemes:-

• /i/  =  break
•  /e/ = break