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In this dubbel blind wat if, I'd like to tak about somthing we offen take for granted theze dayz: our langwij. Az we all no, inglish spelling yoost to be way more difficult than it iz now: you had letters that weren't even pronounced, and it somtimez seemd as if there was hardly any consistency with the spelling: too many exepshuns to spelling rules and so on. Hell, "jail" used to be spelld "gaol!" How cood anybody cum up with the idea that that made sens!?

That's wy the Simplified Spelling Bord (or, if yu like, "Board") was created in the erly 20th Century. Prominent peepel in the Yoonited States like Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain, and numerus intellectshuals cood see that Inglish was on the way to becuming the global langwij it iz now, and they new that, with the way Inglish spelling waz at the time, it wood be way too hard for peepel in foren cuntries to lern Inglish as a second langwij: the spelling didn't make sens! So they advocated making it eezier to spell, and therfor, eezier to lern.

Soon enuf, in 1906, Prezident Theodore Rusevelt (hoo particularly had trubbel with spelling back then) reely got behind the idea of simplified spelling, and that yeer, the first spelling reforms were past. It started with only 300 new spellings for different wurds, but that groo to the enormus chanjiz we no about today. I'm shur we all no wat a majur effect this has had on the rize of the Inglish langwij thruout the wurld.

But I waz just reeding that at first, ther were a lot of peepel in the Yoonited States, including the Y.S. Congress, that wer opposed to the idea of chanjing the spelling; they sed that it wood be too hard to chanj the way Inglish had ben ritten for hundreds of yeers. Wich makes me wonder: wat if theze peepel had gotten ther way, and Inglish spelling hadn't reformd?
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