Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard?

From	Chris Bell <news@highpath.net>
Subject	Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard?
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Date	2012-03-07 14:14 +0000
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Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> Chris Bell <news@highpath.net> wrote:
> > I agree with Michael and wish that English spelling was phonetic,
> > like Welsh and other helpful languages.

> The Welsh also use combinations of letters, compare d with dd

Yes, but 'd' is always pronounced 'd' and 'dd' is always pronounced as
a hard 'th' - no exceptions.  Once they know the rules, anyone could
read a Welsh book out loud and Welsh speakers would understand every
word - that can't be done with English!  Anyway, for those who haven't
seen it yet, this imminent piece of European legislation should give us
all hope...

EEC # 18362/351237/1.34
Brussells, 16.01.11
Subject: New European Spelling

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been
reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European
communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. 
As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that
English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a
five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for
short).  In the first year, 's' will be used instead of the soft 'c'. 
Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy.  Also, the
hard 'c' will be replaced with 'k'.  Not only will this klear up
konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.  There will be
growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome 'ph'
will be replaced by 'f'.  This will make words like 'fotograf' 20 per
sent shorter.  In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling
kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are
possible.  Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters,
which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.  Also, al wil agre
that the horible mes of silent 'e's in the languag is disgrasful, and
they would go.  By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such
as replasing 'th' by 'z' and 'w' by 'v'.  During ze fifz year, ze
unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou', and similar
changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.  After zis
fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibil riten styl.  Zer vil be no mor
trubils or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech
ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

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