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by slick1 on July 24th, 2007

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I need the name of a man who "back in the day" tried to simplify spelling by trying to knock out stuff like silent gh and 'f' ph

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  • by AB-Amanda on August 2nd, 2007

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    Melville Dewey (of the Dewey Decimal System) also advocated phonetic spelling. He wanted to change his name to Melvil Dui - also was responsible for the "Americanized" spelling of catalog (instead of catalogue).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Dewey

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  • by hijklmno on August 2nd, 2007

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    Lots of people have advocated an overhaul of english spelling. The most famous is probably George Bernard Shaw. He came up with the word "ghoti" to show how ridiculous the written language was.

    Ghoti can be pronounced "fish" - "gh" as in "rough", "o" as in "women" and "ti" as in "nation".

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