Spelling

If you frequent this blog, you know my issues with spelling. I had high hopes for this article, but the writer did not go anywhere interesting.

Here's the one slightly-interesting (to me) paragraph:
Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Carnegie, Teddy Roosevelt and even Noah Webster, father of American lexicography, all lobbied for spelling reform, their reasons ranging from traumatic childhood spelling experiences to the hope that easier communication would promote peace. In 1906, Mark Twain lobbied the Associated Press to use phonetic spelling. "The heart of our trouble is with our foolish alphabet," he once wrote. "It doesn't know how to spell, and can't be taught."

It went downhill from there. I guess that's what I get for trying to find thought-provoking articles on cnn.com.