Spelling Reform

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History

• HISTORY OF SPELLING REFORM

• Mark Twain on Spelling Reform

  Arguments for Reform

• Is "meaning" the answer to bad spelling?

• Spelling is a social invention The case for spelling reform

• The Literacy Situation Illiteracy and the spelling system that causes it.

• One Opinion on Spelling Reform for English..

• A Short Comment on English Spellings Reflecting Their Origins

  Variant Spellings

• If Someone Tells You That "Miniscule" Isn't a Real Spelling...

  Spelling Reform Proposals and Reformed Spellings

• Cut Spelng Leaflet I dislike the sparseness of this solution but it is very easy to read even if you don't know the rules. Backed by the simplified spelling society.

• A rashnalized spelling sistim for dhe Ingglish langwij From a sceptic -yet a workable proposal

• Learning to Spell English The Spellright System

• Fanetiks A root and branch proposal. Includes discussion of the problems that need to be faced by any reform proposal.

• Simplified Spelling -or- Phonetics for Fanatics Another root and branch proposal.

  Organizations for Spelling Reform

• the simplified spelling society A UK organisation

• The American Literacy Council

  Also...

  Better Education thru Simplified Spelling don't have a Web site, but if their snail mail is:

  Better Education thru Simplified Spelling
  300 Riverfront Drive Suite 2608
  Detroit, MI 48226
  U.S.A.