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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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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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