'Read' and its past tense are spelled the same. How should they be spelled?

Just remember

My wife and I had a good snicker one time when I brought home edamame peas in the shell.

They were shelled, but she wanted them shelled.

Flammable/imflammable is another one that comes to mind.

It's "its," by the way.

Bought, caught, taught, fought, thought, sought, and wrought are all past tense verbs and all rhyme. The present tense forms are buy, catch, teach, fight, think, seek, and work, none of which rhyme.

Fast can mean moving with great speed or fixed securely in place (among other things).

The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité (1922)

https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html

Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.

I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear;
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.

Pray, console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!
Just compare heart, hear and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word.
...

Very long. Highly recommended

It's because the people who set the rules for the English language, could barely speak it.

The first guy to popularize the printing press was Dutch, so the guy who bought England's first one didn't know how it worked and neither did any English speaker

So he hired a bunch of Dutch who knew how to operate it.

And they got a bunch of handwritten books and were told to mass reproduce them.

Sometimes it was a mistake in the original, sometimes the typesetter made a mistake. Sometimes the writer just disagreed with how it should be written, and sometimes even the typesetters who couldn't speak English made choices to change it

No one gave a fuck about accuracy, it was about pumping out as many books as possible. Because just owning a book was a huge status symbol still from when they were handwritten and crazy expensive.

But all those books eventually got read, and the people who learned to read them were very proud that they could read. So they insisted that all the random bullshit was intentional and had to be followed to a T by everyone forever.

Most other languages had a noble class who kept it sensical, but for a long ass time only peasants spoke English, the wealthy in England all spoke French, cuz they were French.

Anyways, that's why English doesn't make any sense. There was also a natural thing happening where vowel pronunciation was changing. So when the typecasters solidified everything, it was already in a state of flux. That's why pronunciation doesn't line up with spelling.

The primary accent for 2-syllable words that are used as both a noun and a verb depends on the part of speech. The noun places the primary accent on the 1st syllable, the verb on the 2nd syllable.

Examples:
The musician records a record.
The farmer produces produce.
You're not permitted to fish without a permit.

One of my favourites is the word jam, which can mean:

• A fruit preserve
• Traffic that's stopped
• To play music
• A door that won't open
• A difficult situation
• To force something in somewhere it's not supposed to be
• To interrupt a signal
• Something you don't like or can't do ("that's not my jam")

And probably others, all spelled and pronounced the same way but with wildly different meanings depending on the context.

The other English thing I find super interesting is how there's a sort of unspoken but very clearly understood order to adjectives. So for example, if I say "The big old red wooden door" it works as a description, but if I say "The wooden old red big door" it sounds weird even though it's the same information. People aren't usually formally taught the order (as far as I know), but everyone seems to understand it.

Welcome to english, where rules are actually the exceptions

Where, were, we're. Even native speakers have problems with this. I don't know how many times I had to correct such cases, especially with American authors.

"Read" and "readed."

English has way more vowel sounds than it has vowels.

• jack
• barn
• arena
• ball
• able
• rare

Those are just words where the primary vowel letter is "a".

The terrible attempt to solve this is by using double letters, but then consistency goes out the window. There's times when "ea" is a single vowel sound like /rid/ (reed) or /rɛd/ (red). But it can also be /ɛrn/ as in earn, which rhymes with urn and burn. It can be /ˈɡɹeɪt/ as in great, where the "ea" is a diphthong and pronounced like the "a" in grate or vague. Or, for more fun, the two letters can each fully get their own pronunciation like "react" or "theatre".

We're really at the "bearn it all down and start over" stage with English. Let's just all agree to switch to español.

Present: read

Past: red (in the fediverse), redd (on the old site)

Obvious.

"Read" is spelled s-a-m-e? English is a weird language.

On a different note there is Reading, a football club in UK, which is pronounced "Redding". This pronunciation is akin to the Reading Railroad from Monopoly (which I mispronounced all my life until today).

Little details, picked up along the way.

The digraph oo is pronounced at least six different ways:

• boot, proof, boost, scoop, moon
• book, foot, look, cookie, good
• floor, poor, door, moor
• flood, blood
• zoology, cooperative
• brooch (just brooch; there doesn't seem to be any other word in the whole language using this sound for oo).

Lead and lead as well. I got a lead on those lead undergarments you wanted. I'll lead you there later.

I found it! https://www.exocomics.com/193/

Reed, red. Homophones should be homographs too.

The English language is so retarded yet we use it for international communication, and it is too late to stop it.

Reed and Red

How about we go with reed and red... see, you already know how to pronounce them!

The comedic timing of this strip is actually really good.

You should wrede a book they wrote, and after you've wred the book, write your own.

I've never been a fan of read/read/red They're too popular to all be comingled like that.

Just place read/read with Peruse/Perused

Wind as in air moving and wind as in a pathway with twists and turns.

Read and readed

Words in which I can never remember h and g order:

• length thought tough through

Inconsistent pronunciation of "ae"

• steak read bear bleak

And many more...

Façade is written using a letter that doesn't appear in English language keyboards (or in any other English word that I'm aware of).

"well" is a noun, a verb, an adjective, an adverb and an interjection

Looking up the etymology is often helpful in theoretical discussions about pronunciation and spelling :)

Words that produce the same sounds should have same spelling. Read in past tense and red is the same sound, so why isn't past tense of read - red?

Why most 'c' in words produce 'k' sounds?

Car and kar also produce the same sounds, so why C instead of K?

Read should be said "read" and read read. Read, on the other hand, I would leave as is.

English has so much of this sort of nonsense. Like the fish can be spelled ghoti thing.

We should be consistent and say "readed". While we're on the subject, why isn't the past tense of go "goed"?

Are reed and red taken?

Read and Reddit

Put: "hold my beer"

English pronunciation is weird. It can be mastered through tough thorough thought though.

its, not it's.

Rob Words youtube channel is basically wtf english. And he has tons of content, and it keeps comming.

what if we just change the past tense to red? simpler?

English a very difficult language

https://youtu.be/d6DfsBd3iSk

They should be spelled the way they currently are.

They should be left exactly the same as an example of context.

Maybe to reed (infinitive) and read (past tense), but you can usually infer which one it is from context so no need to change the spelling.

The meta aspect of 'shit' has to be up there.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=igh9iO5BxBo

Spelt.

Read.
Have read.