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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.



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