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The list of smart, dead English-speakers who thought there was something wrong with the way English is traditionally spelled includes folk from Benjamin Franklin to Anthony Burgess. The list gets longer every year as more smart people die (or, as in Ambrose Bierce's case, mysteriously disappear). Not all supported radical reform, but most did. Here is just a sampling:
Richard Feynman and Issac Asimov
Theodore Roosevelt
Robertson Davies
Mark Twain
Ambrose Bierce
Copyright © 1998 by John J. Reilly
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