The Push for Simpler Spelling Persists.
When "say," "they" and "weigh" rhyme, but "bomb," "comb" and "tomb" don't, wuudn't it maek mor sens to spel wurdz the wae thae sound?
Those in favor of simplified spelling say children would learn faster and illiteracy rates would drop. Opponents say a new system would make spelling even more confusing.
Eether wae, the consept has yet to capcher th publix imajinaeshun.
It's been 100 years since Andrew Carnegie helped create the Simplified Spelling Board to promote a retooling of written English and President Theodore Roosevelt tried to force the government to use simplified spelling in its publications. But advocates aren't giving up.
They even picket the national spelling bee finals, held every year in Washington, costumed as bumble bees and hoisting signs that say "Enuf is enuf but enough is too much" or "I'm thru with through."
Too-maito, toe-moto; let's call the whole thang off! Or try this on for size:
Can You Read This?
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe uot of one hnrded can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I
was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a
rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the
ltteres in a
wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and
lsat ltteer be
in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you
can sitll raed
it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos
not raed ervey
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh?
yaeh and I
awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed
tihs forwrad it.
ONLY FORWARD IF YOU CAN READ THIS...
Take a lesson, peeps! Ebonics didn't work and this won't fly either.