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The English language is very complicated and confusing. It's filled with non-phonetic pronunciations and words that are much longer than they need to be. The problem is that since dictionaries came along in the 18th century, the way we spell has been set in stone. There have however been attempts to fix this.
In 1906, the Simplified Spelling Board, a group founded by Andrew Carnegie to, as the name implies, simplify spelling came up with a list of alternate spellings for 300 words and sent it to President Roosevelt. Roosevelt was delighted with the idea and ordered the government printing office to start using them.
Soon however, there was backlash among the public and congress passed a resolution ordering a switch to the older spelling. This was a real shame since their changes made a lot of sense, and some were eventually adopted such as eliminating the British style "ou" in several words but other perfectly sensible ideas such as replacing "fixed" with "fixt" and "phoenix" with "phenix" never did.
Here's all the words that were proposed to be changed
Sadly they didn't want to get rid of the "w"s in "wrapped", "wrench", "write" or "wrong".
If this had gone through (or thru), it would've made english significantly easier to teach.
In 1906, the Simplified Spelling Board, a group founded by Andrew Carnegie to, as the name implies, simplify spelling came up with a list of alternate spellings for 300 words and sent it to President Roosevelt. Roosevelt was delighted with the idea and ordered the government printing office to start using them.
Soon however, there was backlash among the public and congress passed a resolution ordering a switch to the older spelling. This was a real shame since their changes made a lot of sense, and some were eventually adopted such as eliminating the British style "ou" in several words but other perfectly sensible ideas such as replacing "fixed" with "fixt" and "phoenix" with "phenix" never did.
Here's all the words that were proposed to be changed
Sadly they didn't want to get rid of the "w"s in "wrapped", "wrench", "write" or "wrong".
If this had gone through (or thru), it would've made english significantly easier to teach.
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