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This is the only international conspiracy
of which I am a dues paying member. The English Spelling Society has been in business, under various
names (including the Simplified Spelling Society) since 1908. Based in Britain, it has an international membership of
teachers, linguists and other people who are tired of spending half their
working lives looking for spelling errors. There is an e-mail discussion group
for members, as well as a serious scholarly journal and a newsletter. That's my proposal for a logo, by the way; it has not yet been adopted.
The American Literacy Council is the
American analogue and predecessor of the Simplified Spelling Society. It
supports both spelling reform and better teaching of traditional orthography.
The Council offers a particularly useful spell-checker program. This program
also converts traditional orthography into a reformed system, for learners who
want to see how words should be pronounced. English Spelling Reform This
site by David Barnsdale has persuasive arguments for the reform English spelling
and a history of the attempts to do so over the last 150 years. It also has has
material supporting the thesis that the high levels of dyslexia in
English-speaking countries are partly a product of the chaotic spelling system.
Institut für deutsche Sprache German,
like most European languages, undergoes systematic spelling reforms from time to
time. Here is a society involved in the latest, rather controversial reform.
Faster Spelling This is among many
interesting notions from the Australian education reformer, Valerie Yule.
The Real Reason Spelling
Reform is Impossible Justin B. Rye reveals the awful truth.
Madhukar N. Gogate & Globish A reformed
orthography, from an Indian perspective, plus lots of other information about
Indic lnaguages, particularly Marathi.
Romanization of Bulgarian
& Re-Romanization of English English in 22 letters.
Problems in learning to read and write English A teacher's
view of just how awful English spelling is.