There’s a reason spelling bees are ... tame the wild beast that is English spelling. Benjamin Franklin was one such beast tamer. In his 1768 “Scheme for a New Alphabet and Reformed Mode ...

French has only about thirty-eight phonemes and Spanish a mere twenty-five, fewer than the twenty-seven letters in its alphabet ... English spelling of words already borrowed from Latin. The word ...

How and why is the English ... day may come to spelling, but we do not want to make any more trouble.” George Bernard Shaw also implemented what he considered a simplified alphabet that ...

defeated Faizan Zaki, a 12-year-old from Plano, Texas ... like sound that can be represented by any vowel in the English alphabet — tripped him up, much like it did for several spellers in ...

It’s great fun to talk about the English ... Vukoti was 2 years old when he entered his first spelling competition, in Ashburn, Va., in 2012. “He was very much into the alphabet and numbers ...

Thank you for Barbara Spindel’s review of “Enough Is Enuf” (Bookshelf, April 14), a humorist’s history of the simplified spelling movements. I wish, however, that she had mentioned the ...

Henry is the author of Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English ... is English spelling. Benjamin Franklin was one such beast tamer. In his 1768 “Scheme for a New Alphabet and ...