You go through life thinking you can speak your native language really well. You’re even a scholar. And then you realise you don’t know if 40 is spelled fourty or forty and the correct way looks wrong and then both ways look wrong.

@yorrike your wouldn’t believe as a teacher how many times I’ve written simple words on the boards for children and then spent ages looking at them because they don’t look right! 99% of the time they are right I might add! 😂

@yorrike I have those mental glitches on some days too. I'm blaming Vowels - all of them.

@RossA Another one I have is “their”. That e sitting there in front of the i… it just looks wrong.

@yorrike forty is one of the few* numbers where the letters are in alphabetical order (*only?)

@yorrike We have cut down a word like chauffeur to sjåfør. Much shorter. But we use the word for anyone driving a vehicle, that have passengers.

@yorrike I tried and failed to learn French. How can a language that sounds so beautiful when spoken have so many evil vowels?

@yorrike you should have seen me when I came back to writing after ditching it for 18 years of computer science. Entirely dependent on "Lookup" + dictation. And the code inspired typos were everywhere, kept going with "inline."

@yorrike or you wonder if you’re pronouncing it correctly. Is it for-tea or for-tay or for-dee?