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On Sat, 20 Sep 2025 19:05:14 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> While I think English benefits from not having an Académie Anglaise
> ruling on vocabulary and grammar, it also suffers from never having had
> a (successful[1]) spelling reform.

Thanks the Gods... Dewey of the Dewey Decimal System tried and even had 
people like Teddy Roosevelt signed on for a while. He even tried to change 
his surname to Dui but that didn't stick luckily.  In many jurisdictions 
that's 'driving under the influence'.