Peter Dechi
In Anne's Diary I found a English grammar point I never know before,who can help me please? Anne said :'so far you truly have been areat source of comfort to me...I am so alad that...'I noticed that she replace 'g' in 'great'and 'glad' with 'a' sometimes,why?what's the point when she did it?what's the meaning of doing it?when can we do it?And is there any similar usage like that?an English grammar point,not a English grammar point....
Mar 20, 2011 4:39 PM
Answers · 8
It's a spelling mistake. That's all.
March 20, 2011
Just a printing error
March 20, 2011
You could say it is an attempt to write in a vernacular accent; however, Ann Frank is not a writer I'm familiar with.
March 20, 2011
It's possible that this edition of the book was prepared by scanning an old edition and doing OCR (optical character recognition) on a computer. If the old edition was printed with a font where "g" and "a" are quite similar, and the program wasn't properly trained, the computer might confuse those two letters. And apparently they didn't do proper proofreading. (By the way, Anne Frank wrote originally in Dutch, so it's quite unlikely she did something like this with English words on purpose.)
March 20, 2011
no
March 20, 2011
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