GREAT or GRATE...

Ok... something has been bugging me for a long time... and where else would I rant about, except on my blog?

I don't understand why we spell the word: GRATEFUL the way we do.
It really bugs me.
Why if we are: GREAT or GREATER,
would we not be: GREATFUL?

Whose idea was that... did they just not like the letter "E" where it was?
Thought it looked better after the "T" or something?

"HURT" becomes "HURTFUL"
"THANKS" becomes "THANKFUL"
But what's wrong with "GREAT"
becoming "GREATFUL"?

And for that reason, when we add "FUL" to the end of a word,
why don't we spell it "FULL"?

Maybe we could start a revolution and get everyone to start spelling thing the way that makes sense... if only I had a friend in the dictionary business.

Homework Time...

I've reached a new level of blogness... if there is such a thing?

My other blog: License To Rant
(also knowns as Why That Plate),

has become part of a homework assignment
at Rowan University, in Glassboro, NJ:

for Tuesday, Feb 12

Please read Wired articles: Turkle (1995) "Who Am We?," Kelly (2005) "We are the Web," Vogelstein (2007) “How Mark Zuckerberg Turned Facebook Into the Web’s Hottest Platform" and watch a few times Wesch (2007) "The Machine is Us/ing Us." Please also look at the following blogs: PostSecret, The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks, Literally-A Web Log, Why That Plate, Lowercase L, and Bathroom Graffiti Project.

Weird...