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Subject: English spelling can never be phonetic

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Ian (Australia)

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Date Posted: 13:29:09 01/06/05 Thu
In reply to: Ed Harris (London) 's message, "Not quite..." on 13:07:03 01/06/05 Thu

There are simply too many accents and thus many ways to pronounce the words. Attempting to make spelling phonetic for one accent will automatically make it LESS phonetic for pretty much all of the others.

English spelling is sort of like the monarchy: people may say it is anachronistic or irrational, but it is the same for everyone and it is one of the links that keeps us together.

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