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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: American and British English spelling differences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Webster was a strong proponent of spelling reform for reasons both philological and nationalistic.
		Among the advocates of spelling reform in England, the influences of those who preferred the Norman (or Anglo-French) spellings of certain words proved decisive.
		Spelling reform generally attempts to introduce a logical structure connecting the spelling and pronunciation of words.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences/See_also (1033 words)

	Chapter 8. American Spelling. 5. Simplified Spelling. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language
		Its actual father was Webster, for it was the long controversy over his simplified spellings that brought the dons of the American Philological Association to a serious investigation of the subject.
		The result was that the whole reform received a set-back: the public dismissed the reformers as a pack of dreamers.
		Even fosfate and fotograf, he says, “are bound to be the spellings of the future.” 41 Meanwhile the advertisement writers and authors combine in an attempt to naturalize alright, a compound of all and right, made by analogy with already and almost.
	www.bartleby.com /185/35.html (2116 words)

	German Spelling Reform of 1996 Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The German spelling reform of 1996 (Rechtschreibreform) regulates the current German orthography and is based on an international agreement signed in 1996 by the governments of the German-speaking countries Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland.
		On July 14, 1998, after several hearings involving the teachers' initiatives, the court declared that the introduction of the spelling reform by the Ministers of Culture, without a decision by the legislature, was legal.
		The editors of the Duden dictionaries also agreed that many of the problems in the traditional spelling system were due to the arcane rules that they had produced to explain it, thus lending their support to the new spelling, which was said to be "more logical".
	www.launchbase.net /encyclopedia/German_spelling_reform_of_1996 (1801 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Pronunciation spelling
		The spelling system of an alphabetic language consists of the conventions by which its letters represent sounds and words (E-G-G spells egg) and the way(s) in which words are spelt/spelled...
		SPELLING REFORM The planned alteration of the established alphabetic WRITING system of a language so as to remove or reduce elements taken to be sources of confusion and difficulty in learning and using that system.
		Spelling her way to success: first fl winner of championship is celebrity in Jamaica.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Pronunciation+spelling (833 words)

	Simplified Spelling Society : Spelling Reform Typology.
		The other is his extensive knowledge of spelling reform schemes and their authors, gathered over twenty years and more of involvement with the subject.
		Reformed spelling systems are sometimes presented in a unilateral or even partizan way, often without reference to other, similar schemes.
		Much English spelling reform activity has therefore been concentrated on phonemic schemes, the widest-known [4] having been intended for temporary use with L1 children until they acquire basic literacy and can then begin a gradual transition to TO.
	www.spellingsociety.org /journals/pamflets/p13typology.php (7082 words)

	SPELLING 2, MISSPELLING, AND SPELLING REFORM. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
		Spelling reformers have long been unhappy over the inexact match between some of our English speech sounds and our alphabet, and every generation brings proposals for new, “improved” alphabets or parts of alphabets.
		Wholesale spelling reform would also cost us our investment in the conventions of English spelling—those fixed mental images of certain words to which we refer almost unconsciously as we write would be as useless as all the rules hammered into us in grammar school.
		So spelling reform is piecemeal at best; a variant spelling here and there will gradually replace another, and it all happens a word or two at a time.
	www.bartelby.com /68/46/5646.html (1005 words)

	German as a foreign language: The German spelling reform
		The German spelling reform (Rechtschreibreform) was an international agreement signed in 1996 by the governments of the German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland).
		The spelling reform is an attempt to simplify and facilitate the rules of spelling without changing the familiar rules of the German language substantially.
		German spelling: rules and glossary: official regulations of the Institut für Deutsche Sprache, where the topic is also discussed in their magazine 'language report' ('Sprachreport').
	www.learn-german-online.net /learning-german-resouces/german-spelling-reform.htm (298 words)

	spelling reform@Everything2.com
		The other big reason given for spelling reform is that it would be much easier for children (particularly children with learning disabilities such as dyslexia) and foreigners to learn a phonetic system.
		Other famous campaigners for Spelling reform were Benjamin Franklin, George Bernard Shaw, who inspired the Shaw Alphabet for Writers (AKA Shavian), and Melvil Dewey, who helped form the Spelling Reform Association (I am proud to own a copy of his 1921 Outline Decimal Classification and Relativ Index {sic}, written in a slightly simplified spelling format).
		Cornell Kimball proposed that spelling reform could make a good start by simply accepting current "improved" spellings (thru, donut, gage, surprize, and tho, for example) as "official" words, and dropping the less phonetic spellings.
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=1209393 (2900 words)

	Europundit: Spelling reform
		Samtayms, it is bekos foren wørds ar ritten yusing foren spellings dhæt piepel ar mor fømiliar widh.
		Biekos ov dhø partikjulari obtjous spelling skiems ov thies tou tangs, spelling hæs biekam a mætter ov søwcial djustis in dhø Inglish ænd Frentch spieking wørld, biekos porer piepel widh por edjukeytions ar less eybel tou kompenseyt for thær por mæsteri ov thies arkeyik sistems.
		Dhø autkam is a høwplessli komplikeyted spelling skiem witch neytiv spiekers hæv diffikulti lørning in 12 yers ov skoul ænd sekond længwidzh yusers hæv vørtchualli nøw høwp ov mæstering.
	www.europundit.com /archives/000271.html (822 words)

	Spelling Fun - Reforming English Spelling
		Reformers have often suggested a series of small changes as a way to deal with the anticipated resistance to any change at all.
		Twain poked fun at the resistance to orthographic reform in his essay on Cadmus, the legendary Phoenician king who introduced the Semitic alphabet to the Greeks.
		The amusing staged reform proposal is based on the notion that society would be quick to adapt to the simple changes proposed for year 1 and by the end of the year, most people would be reading and writing this way.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /vangogh/555/Spell/spel-fun.html (1308 words)

	Goethe-Institut Australia - Knowledge - School and Work
		The reform was supposed to end the monopoly of Duden's definitive dictionary of the German language, whose spelling system had been declared binding by the Standing Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (KMK) of the Länder back in the 1950s: "If in doubt, Duden applies".
		Proposals for a spelling reform that were drafted by the Institute for the German Language (IDS) on behalf of the relevant government agencies were criticised, rejected, and reworked.
		For the four major contentious areas of the reform - writing compounds separately or as a single word, the use of lower and upper case, punctuation and syllabification - the Council produced recommendations that were unanimously adopted by the KMK on March 2, 2006 in Berlin.
	www.goethe.de /ins/au/lp/wis/sub/en630493.htm (953 words)

	Spelling Reform by Vivian Cook
		They cannot spell it because they have nothing to spell it with but an old foreign alphabet of which only the consonants-and not all of them-have any agreed speech value.
		The reform of English spelling for the benefit of learners and users throughout the world.
		C To promote research and debate on ways of reforming English spelling, and to prepare a graded set of proposals for relating word-forms more predictably to speech-sounds.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /vivian.c/SpellingReform.htm (517 words)

	Language Log: More on Spelling Reform
		Via de Argilla's argument against spelling reform begins with the claim that reformers have a false view of languages, namely that writing is simply a means of recording speech.
		Rather than tormenting beginning readers and writers with historicizing spellings, it would be better to let them learn to read and write easily and at a later point in their education teach them some real historical linguistics.
		It's true that spelling reform requires care and that creating a good writing system is not as simple as choosing one letter per sound, but the English spelling system is such a baroque mess that it creates real problems for those learning to read and write.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001024.html (1127 words)

	Attempts at spelling reform - Boston.com
		In year two, Twain's plan would reform "w" spellings so that "which" and "one" would start with the same consonant.
		Year three would replace "y" with "i" and year four would fix what he said was an anomaly with "g" and "j" spellings.
		The paper reverted to traditional spelling of some of the simplified words in 1955, noting that its campaign had not caught on and was causing confusion in schools, but held out on the bulk of them until 1975.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/07/05/attempts_at_spelling_reform?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News (542 words)

	History of Spelling Reform
		Correct spelling came to be seen as the standard of a good education throughout America and the famous American spelling bee was born and became part of the social and self-improvement life of every town and village in the land.
		Spelling scholars such as Edward Carney and Richard Venezky will mention spelling reform but do not think that it is practical or likely.
		Spelling reform means using something close to a dictionary pronunciation guide spelling as the written norm.
	www.foolswisdom.com /~sbett/history-SR.htm (5628 words)

	Webster Language
		It has been observed by all writers, on the English language, that the orthography or spelling of words is very irregular; the same letters often representing different sounds, and the same sounds often expressed by different letters.
		A few men, who are bred to some business that requires constant exercise in writing, finally learn to spell most words without hesitation; but most people remain, all their lives, imperfect masters of spelling, and liable to make mistakes, whenever they take up a pen to write a short note.
		The most arduous task a reformer has to execute, is to make people think; to rouse them from that lethargy, which, like the mantle of sleep, covers them in repose and contentment.
	edweb.sdsu.edu /people/DKitchen/new_655/webster_language.htm (3493 words)

	English Spelling Reform, New Alphabets for English, Systematic Phonemic (Phonetic) Spelling,
		Spelling Reformers typically want to write with a dictionary pronunciation guide rather than traditional English spelling.
		Yet spelling is technology, not culture, not the English language itself.
		I favor the idea of some spelling reform, but I only think that it's possible and practical if we do just a little, and do so gradually.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /vangogh/555/Spell/spel-links.html (1881 words)

	Spelling reform at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Many digraphs or diacritical marks would be needed to create a phonetic spelling for English.
		Some were proposed by Noah Webster; some, but by no means all, of his suggestions result in the differences between American and British spellings.
		Spelling reform is parodied in "A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling" and attributed to Mark Twain [1] who was actually a supporter of reform.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Spelling_reform.html (1199 words)

	The Simplified Spelling Society.
		The effects of dyslexia are made worse by the chaotic English spelling.
		The Spelling Bee (BeeMan visits Spelling Bee) is unknown in countries with phonetic (or should that not be "fonetic"?) spelling.
		The updating of English spelling would be of benefit to many more than just the Anglo-Saxon world, but also the world of TEFL where other languages are spoken in addition to English.
	www.spellingsociety.org (183 words)

	Spelling reform in General \| Antimoon Forum
		Anyone advocating spelling reform should be executed (or banned from Antimoon for life at least).
		As a non-native speaker, I would be happy with a spelling reform both in English and in French, but there seems to be no inner need for any spelling reform within the native communities themselves.
		The only instance I know of a spelling reform "en masse" ever is the beginning of the 19th century, when national revivals in Eastern Europe resulted in a reform in the orthography of the languages concerned, along with establishing a standard language variety.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/2004/5933.htm (1013 words)

	Germans balk at effort to simplify their spelling rules \| csmonitor.com
		Critics argue the spelling reform was undemocratic and see it as an attack on the integrity of the German language.
		In Turkey, for example, President Kemal Ataturk imposed a spelling reform in 1928 as part of sweeping social and economic change to separate modern Turkey from Muslim traditions.
		Spelling reforms in Russia were part of a cultural reform of 1917.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0813/p07s02-woeu.html (891 words)

	Russian spelling reforms
		He encouraged reform of the Cyrillic script, and from his time onward further Russian spelling reforms continued to be proposed.
		Comprehensive spelling reform aimed at mass literacy was one of the first acts of the democratic provisional government in the 1917 Revolution.
		After 1945, spelling reform was predictably again on the agenda of reconstruction of a war- ravaged society.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~ozideas/wrussref.htm (925 words)

	Adapting to spelling reform in Greenland
		It was relatively simple to make a reform from the etymological spelling that had been adopted in 1851, since the population is small and isolated, although they still had to make a choice of which among their dialects was to be their standard.
		As the language is infiltrated by Danish the new spelling was still not ideally consistent, and the remarkable length of words in the language still causes reading and spelling problems.
		The Greenlandic children who were already literate were able to switch 'spelling set' from one context to another without difficulty, since the new spelling was consistent.
	www.vicnet.net.au /~ozideas/wgreenref.htm (373 words)

	Spelling Reform Links
		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.
		Henry Sweet's Principles of Spelling Reform These are the thoughts of a 19th century reform advocate.
		Faster Spelling This is among many interesting notions from the Australian education reformer, Valerie Yule.
	pages.prodigy.net /aesir/link.htm (406 words)

	English Spelling Reform
		Spelling is a social invention by Valerie Yule
		The Simplified Spelling Society voted recently, quite heavily, for a staged reform on the basis that anything too radical had not a snowballs chance ov getting accepted.
		A rashnalized spelling sistim for dhe Ingglish langwij Yet another root an branch reform but then as a skeptic he doesn't claim to want it to succeed.
	www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk /spell (366 words)

	Fanetik: Thoroughgoing Spelling Reform for English, At Least for Teaching (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Spelling reform must include geographic names if it is to be successful and maximally useful.
		Unfortunately, the spelling of English is preposterous, and makes the task of learning to read and write it very hard, not just for people born into other language communities, but even for people born into English-speaking countries.
		But English spelling is so far from either phonetic or consistent that even people who were born and raised in English and use it extensively every day have to resort to wordlists, dictionaries, and spellchecking programs to see how to spell something they want to say or pronounce something they see written.
	members.aol.com /Fanetiks (8457 words)

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