Our former president Andy Jackson is reputed to have said "It's a damn small mind that can only think of one way to spell a word".
/johnny
Well, there are the prescribers and the describers. Describers wave the white flag from the start, prescribers defend the fort.
We lost on “pro-active”, I admit, but “its” != “it’s”, sorry!
Teddy Roosevelt, perhaps one of the most manifestly religious presidents (at a convention Roosevelt cried out, “We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord,” and also made a 90 minute speech after being shot in the chest and bleeding - and carried the bullet for the rest of his life), was also a writer and reformer in that regard. He ordered the Government Printing Office to use new simplified spellings of 300 words. But due to strong opposition he rescinded the order.