Carol Gano - Bunch

(Bunch

Lunch

Munch)

Change just one letter and the concept mutates

If two letters are altered

Bunch > Lunch > Lungh

Lunph > lench

Lanch

Linch

Lunch > Munch > Munch

Munce

Mundh

Monch

Manch

Mench

But

When three letters change, oddly the words can remain

Bunch >  Lunch > Lench > Lengh can remain parallel. Or, was this list just an odd fluke? A ‘bunch’ of bananas and the ‘length’ of a bunch growing down off a banana tree?

Try a second example? OK

Lunch > Linch > Punch

I can see pull-out a word similarity. Punch is a drink that would be provided at lunch. Could become a fad. Take any word, alter it x 2 then relate them to each other.

Let’s go for three attempts.

Again, start at Bunch > Lunch > Hunch

Bunch of Hunches? No really pushing it. To be up on your haunches? Nope, doesn’t sound the same and is spelled differently. Probably one failure is adequate to disprove the ‘rule’. The ( i before e, except after c or when followed by g) rule DOES NOT allow exceptions.

I was taught so many spelling rules. All those pronunciation rules. It just never helps. I recall in year 3 reading aloud in groups, picking the correct where/were pronunciation flummoxed me every time. I tried to listed to the correct reader before me and copy them. But, the sentences were different. It sounded wrong, but it was too late, I was incorrect AGAIN. Again and again, the entire idea behind the exercise was to realise both words are chosen based upon context, but at 7 years old, everyone else was 8 years old, I just didn’t ‘get it’!

It was a bunch of errors.