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Can’t Spell? Let’s Make It E-Z On You.

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By Art Smith.  Posted Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 8:00 am  
Filed Under: Communication, Education, Words Have Meaning

This story (page 1 of Friday’s WSJ) takes the cake.  And it’s the last line that sums up why I’m frustrated by it:
We just want to make it [English] a little easier to spell.
Changing the spelling of words to be phonetically exacting is just wrong.  That way, you don’t have to know to spell “there”, [...]


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