Is Spelling Reform a Shovel-Ready Project?
Is Spelling Reform a Shovel-Ready Project? Wednesday November 11, 2009#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) In response to our recent article on the alphabet (“From A to Z”), an astute reader observed that English spelling was overdue for reform: It could be down to my lack of understanding of how the English language works, but if words were to be taken just on the basis of the way they sound, it seems English actually could benefit from introduction of marks of accents, or diacritics, [as in the] case of some alphabets; for example, car and cat, jar and rat, but and put, and most probably many more. It seems that an investment of time and money officially would just not be out of place in order to systematically incorporate all the sounds and make it easier to pronounce such words rather than having to rely on rote learning. Our friend isn’t the first to po
