Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use the code letthemtalktv at checkout. Download the Saily app or go to Dan Quayle couldn't spell 'potato', Ernest Hemmingway couldn't spell 'definite, Winston Churchill was a bad speller and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Why is English spelling so weird? We look at the history from the Anglo-Saxon period to the modern day. If you're learning English or you're interesting in the history of English join my Patreon. Wisdom guaranteed. More information here. Sign up for the LetThemTalkTV newsletter here. It's full of interesting insights and stories about the English language and it's free! 00:00 Famous bad spellers 04:16 Saily 5:43 Ghoti is not fish 7:29 Anglo-Saxon scribes 10:55 French trained scribes 14:59 The handwriting of scribes 17:45 The printing press 20:59 The Great Vowel Shift 23:35 The classical scholars