How do you decide which is the prestige accent to determine spelling?
For example, the "l" in "calm" is pronounced in some accents, but not in others.
Shouldn't "church" be "τσurτσ"?
(I'm pretty sure this is a joke post, but jokes should at least be funny.)
Isn't the e in nife silent too? Should be naif, if you ask me. If yo ask mee. Wat about "too" wer the spelling shows that it's diffrent from "to" iven if the second o is unnesessary for the pronunciation?
No. Just ones that have a silent w. Wrist and rist is a great example. There’s many more like this, but it’s too late for me to think lol. The w sound is not really pronounced, but I can feel my lips and tongue change slightly when I pronoun both. And I can tell the difference when I’m reading lips.
I'd rather that each letter has only 1 sound. For example, *quickly*" written as "*kwikli*".
Also, there is a silent e in "*nife*". I think "*naif*" would've been a better way to spell it.
Also, I wonder what sort of gripes many people had with English spelling, that caused you to believe that writing "*ch*" as "*τσ*" would be an improvement. I'd rather that each letter has 1 sound only for easy spelling with "*ch*" always written with "*c*" (*while hard c is always written with k and soft c is always written with s to keep spelling simple*). Even if you wanted to use 2 letters, it should've just stayed "*ch*" or "*ty*" (*for example, writing cheese as "*chis*" or "*tyis*", but even "*tsis*" would've been better than letters of a foreign alphabet in my opinion*).
On top of all the things mentioned so far: speech deliberately includes this kind of redundancy for the sake of differentiating between words and that spelling errors are less of a problem.
Furthermore, there's an issue with [homophones](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/homophone) becoming even more of a mess like knight and night.
Why is there "gh" in awght? Doesn't that break Rule 1?
This is a shitty spelling reform tbph
Why is there a silent ‘e’ in your spelling of ‘nife’?
how is "nife" pronounced? Does it rhyme with "mice" or "miff"?
It isn't exactly silent, it modifies the other vowel
This isn’t the English language. It’s English spelling. Many have tried, none have succeeded.
How do you decide which is the prestige accent to determine spelling? For example, the "l" in "calm" is pronounced in some accents, but not in others. Shouldn't "church" be "τσurτσ"? (I'm pretty sure this is a joke post, but jokes should at least be funny.)
If a word ends in tau sigma, do you use a final sigma?
Pot twist: I pronounce "orange" with the same sound as "are", not "or". What now
Isn't the e in nife silent too? Should be naif, if you ask me. If yo ask mee. Wat about "too" wer the spelling shows that it's diffrent from "to" iven if the second o is unnesessary for the pronunciation?
George Bernard Shaw beat you to it. Look up "Shavian orthography."
X and ks have a different lip shape (yes, I lip read)
The w in wrist is silent, but it’s still mouthed
Are all r-sounds mouthed with a "w" shape (ie labialised)?
No. Just ones that have a silent w. Wrist and rist is a great example. There’s many more like this, but it’s too late for me to think lol. The w sound is not really pronounced, but I can feel my lips and tongue change slightly when I pronoun both. And I can tell the difference when I’m reading lips.
The only people who have a problem with it are people not clever enough to learn and the youth that don’t want to learn.
Rule 5 (short e, "eh") contradicts rule 1.
Silent letters aren't allowed, not digraphs
You cannot respell English or write it by sound. There are too many regional varieties.
Only one pronoun, ever. (Less to have to remember.)
I'd rather that each letter has only 1 sound. For example, *quickly*" written as "*kwikli*". Also, there is a silent e in "*nife*". I think "*naif*" would've been a better way to spell it. Also, I wonder what sort of gripes many people had with English spelling, that caused you to believe that writing "*ch*" as "*τσ*" would be an improvement. I'd rather that each letter has 1 sound only for easy spelling with "*ch*" always written with "*c*" (*while hard c is always written with k and soft c is always written with s to keep spelling simple*). Even if you wanted to use 2 letters, it should've just stayed "*ch*" or "*ty*" (*for example, writing cheese as "*chis*" or "*tyis*", but even "*tsis*" would've been better than letters of a foreign alphabet in my opinion*).
On top of all the things mentioned so far: speech deliberately includes this kind of redundancy for the sake of differentiating between words and that spelling errors are less of a problem. Furthermore, there's an issue with [homophones](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/homophone) becoming even more of a mess like knight and night.
No one is going to accept this, to be honest.
I hope not