The dumbing-down of America continues ...

[ladycrim]

Spelling Bee Draws Protesters

(excerpt)
... According to literature distributed by the group, it makes more sense for "fruit" to be spelled as "froot," "slow" should be "slo," and "heifer" - a word spelled correctly during the first oral round of the bee Thursday by Texas competitor Ramesh Ghanta - should be "hefer." ...

Comments

Serendipity

[devonapple]

The next item on my reading list after your post was this well-placed installment of "Notalwaysrite"

Re: Serendipity

[ladycrim]

*grin* I saw that, too. One of my favorite sites!

Amazing how long this has been around...

[johno]

Mark Twain wrote against it in 1899

http://www.online-literature.com/twain/1322/

Google: twain simplified spelling

Re: Amazing how long this has been around...

[ladycrim]

I wonder how Twain would feel seeing whole sentences composed of text-speak.

[deirdremoon]

Well, at least the article says there were only four. I think this falls under the heading of "free speech for all, the idiots will show themselves up". ;)

[anewdaysjourney]

Get real. There should be two F's in "heffer".

[eternitat]

English is not phonetic. It is a mix of two non-phonetic languages, with a third phonetic one coming later.

I love Twain's German language essay, btw.