"redundant" does not mean "incorrect".

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage says "Have will do perfectly well in writing that avoids the natural rhythms of speech. But in speech, or prose that resembles speech, you will probably want have got."

The OED has the spelling "to-day" up to 1912. But it was also spelled without the hyphen as early as the 1700s.

The first citation in the OED is 1957.

"gift" has been a verb since at least the 1600s. Which means we've been in the end times for... 400 years. How will English survive?

"The recovery of a parcel of ground which the Queen had gifted to Mary Levinston." (a1639, in the OED)

Er, of course the L in "walk" and "talk" is silent. Who pronounces these words with the sound /l/? No one.

http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/different-than-analogy-fallacies/

I meant "voiceless", not "voiced". The raising occurs before a voiceless consonant.

porsche, I think canconned's point is the same as mine: Canadian raising happens in words where the vowel is followed by a voiced consonant. So the vowels in knife/knives and lout/loud are different, not just the consonants.

james, you're assuming that spelling determines pronunciation, and it doesn't, otherwise "give" and "dive" would rhyme. The T in "listen" is unetymological - the Old English word was "lysna", and the T was added thru confusion with the synonymous verb "list". But if the T hadn't been added, the word would still be pronounced the same.

Y is not silent in "yclept" or "coccyx".