OT: en orthography (was: en-GB-oxford)

[Mark Crispin]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Michael Everson wrote:
> Webster's changes were largely superficial, and didn't address most
> of the real issues regarding English orthography.
>
> Read Axel Wijk.

This is supposed to be a new revelation?  Mark Twain and other authors
wrote the subject over 100 years ago!

It isn't that the exercise of a thorough reform of English orthography
hasn't been done.  It has.  Nobody can read the result.

-- Mark --

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