Spelling Reform Requires Competition of Spelling Options
The first condition of rational progress in spelling reform is that persons who know, or who think they know, how words should be speld, should recover some- thing of their former freedom to spel in accordance with individual judgment. Only in that way can there be a wholesome rivalry of forms with ultimate survival of the best.
The Board does not expect any one to adopt a spelling that, to him, suggests a pronunciation at variance with his usage.
Those whose temper moves them to act as pioneers, or as skirmishers ahed of the main column, render exceptionally valuable service if they lead in the indi- cated direction. They wil find the Board prepared and eager to enlist them and to equip them, to point out the way, and to fortify its counsel with reasons based on scolarship and practical experience.
Notes:
Not everyone hears or speaks words the same way. Let variances of spelling propagate and have the public adopt that which seems correct by consensus.
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Handbook of Simplified SpellingSchemas
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.
