I helped my grandson study for his spelling test last night. He’s in third grade. He spells words exactly as they sound. No tricky silent letters. No weird letter combinations that sound like something completely different, such as the letters e-i-g-h together, which for some reason, are pronounced like a long “a”, as in weigh, neighbor, and eight.
He would spell those words wa, nabor and at. The more I thought about it, his way of spelling makes much more sense. Simple, straight forward, logical. Why not make all vowels long all the time, and just come up with new letters for the short vowel sounds?
Sometimes we make life more complicated than it has to be. Just love one another, trust God, and be at peace. That’s p-e-a-c-e. Not to be confused with p-i-e-c-e.
See what I mean?