Should Spelling be Modernized?
The time taken to teach the decimalised system for currency, temperature, weights and distances is far shorter and more certain than when 240 pence equalled a pound, 32 degrees Fahrenheit equalled the temperature of ice and pounds and ounces were taught. Already there is a generation that was spared these ancient measurements.
To improve literacy in the general population, modernisation of the spelling system will bring similar benefits to what decimalisation brought.
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Folksonomies: phonetics
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Imperial units (0.928338): dbpedia | freebase
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Decimal Day (0.658758): dbpedia | freebase | yago
Cent (0.609480): dbpedia | freebase | yago
Irish pound (0.597511): dbpedia | freebase | yago
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The Spelling SocietySchemas
Arguments for English Spelling Reform
This schema is a collection of arguments about how proper grammar, with its illogical and inconsistently applied rules, is used by academics and intellectuals to create a privileged class of people who's ideas deserve considering because they have successfully learned the irrational system.
