Linguistics & Language · Writing Systems & Decipherment
A topic within Writing Systems & Decipherment, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
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Benjamin Franklin
Proposes discarding redundant letters and adding new ones so that English spelling represents pronunciation directly, on the grounds that a phonetic alphabet would be faster to learn and harder to misread.
Noah Webster
Argues that American English should reform its spelling and pronunciation independently of British usage, on the grounds that a new nation needs a language standard of its own.
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