English-language spelling reform: Difference between revisions

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* [[Charles Butler (beekeeper)|Charles Butler]], British naturalist and author of the first natural history of bees: ''Đe Feminin' Monarķi'', 1634. He proposed that "men should write altogeđer according to đe sound now generally received", and espoused a system in which the h in digraphs was replaced with [[Bar (diacritic)|bars]].

* [[Benjamin Franklin]], American innovator and revolutionary, added letters to the Roman alphabet for [[Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet|his own personal solution]] to the problem of English spelling.

* [[Mont Follick]], [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[(UK) Member of Parliament]], [[Linguistics|linguist]] (multi-lingual) and author who preceded [[James Pitman|Pitman]] in drawing the English spelling reform issue to the attention of [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]]. Favored replacing w and y with u and i.{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}}

* [[Robert R. McCormick]] (1880–1955), publisher of the [[Chicago Tribune|''Chicago Tribune'']], employed reformed spelling in his newspaper. The ''Tribune'' used simplified versions of some words, such as "altho" for "although".

* [[John C. Wells]], former professor of [[phonetics]] at [[University College London]], is a former president of The [[English Spelling Society]] and advocated for [[SoundSpel|New Spelling]].