Isn’t the human invention of speech and writing and how we are able to communicate at all from a distance infinitely surprising ? This right/wrong spelling issue reminds me of my first lessons in Irish. The teacher, born in the North Western Gaeltacht, had once been openly insulted in a shop in the Cork area after an Irish speaker there heard her using ‘wrong’ pronunciation. Whatever the spelling we both knew what TC was referring to, which is kind of miraculous 🐈⬛
The correct spelling is Inuit.
Isn’t the human invention of speech and writing and how we are able to communicate at all from a distance infinitely surprising ? This right/wrong spelling issue reminds me of my first lessons in Irish. The teacher, born in the North Western Gaeltacht, had once been openly insulted in a shop in the Cork area after an Irish speaker there heard her using ‘wrong’ pronunciation. Whatever the spelling we both knew what TC was referring to, which is kind of miraculous 🐈⬛
Yes, I only specified the spelling because the Inuit had to spend time and energy getting us to refer to them by that name.
Even here, I find myself asking people to please stop calling women "gal" or "lady". I am neither.