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In the company of "loosers": Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, among other geniuses and great men and women. Ever since first Samuel Johnson and slightly later Noah Webster published a dictionary with regularized spelling. Initial pre-pub contract signed for same by Johnson on 18 June 1746.

1746. English, by the way is dated back to slightly prior to the first millennium, common era. So we enjoyed, roughly, 800 years without zealously "book-regularized" yet reckless phonetically spelling and spelling zealots, and have suffered only 250 or so years of these zealots of phonetically insane yet book-regularized spelling.

Count me with the "loosers" -- not totally, but we could use some serious realignment of many spellings.