Why is that one word can have different spellings for the same part of speech?

For example, if you look up the noun indecision it is defined as the inability to decide. Then, if you look up the adjective indecisive, it also has the noun form indecisiveness.

Therefore, indecisiveness and indecision are two nouns, with the same meaning. Quite a few words have this.

Isn’t English wonderful???

I’m just so happy I’m a native speaker.

I may learn another language, french, spannish, but I would hate to have to learn our irregular verbs, spelling and more.

Spannish is very regular in spelling (except that it’s spelled with one n). But there’s noun case, different endings for all verb forms, and many irregular verbs.

French is difficult to spell because so many words are not pronounced as they are spelled—the difference being that most of it derives from Latin instead of the Latin-Germanic mix that we have in English.

Eddie88 - 26 August 2009 04:20 PM

I’m just so happy I’m a native speaker.

I may learn another language, french, spannish, but I would hate to have to learn our irregular verbs, spelling and more.

Well Spanish and French are full of them.