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To: C19fan

This simplification lunacy was all the rage at the beginning of the last century. George Bernard Shaw was one of its proponents, IIRC


44 posted on 02/10/2015 7:01:10 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (Cogito ergo non liberalo: I think, therefore I'm not a Democrat)
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To: Celtic Conservative

So is this the Atlantic’s way of announcing that they’re hiring writers who don’t use big words and can’t spell?


47 posted on 02/10/2015 7:03:58 AM PST by Kanzan
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To: Celtic Conservative

P.S. you want a headache? try learning to spell in Gaelic. It’s as bad as english or worse.

CC


48 posted on 02/10/2015 7:04:05 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (Cogito ergo non liberalo: I think, therefore I'm not a Democrat)
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To: Celtic Conservative
Teddy Roosevelt as President tried to introduce simplified spelling for some words. The schoolteachers of America defeated him.

The Brits can take perfectly good English words that they spell the same as we do, and mispronounce them, instead of pronouncing the correct way as we do in the US.

101 posted on 02/10/2015 8:42:38 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Celtic Conservative
Teddy Roosevelt as President tried to introduce simplified spelling for some words. The schoolteachers of America defeated him.

The Brits can take perfectly good English words that they spell the same as we do, and mispronounce them, instead of pronouncing the correct way as we do in the US.

102 posted on 02/10/2015 8:42:38 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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