A few words about words

Every so often throughout history the lexicon that makes a language changes, some are subtle while others are quite bold.  The English language is no exception and you need only look at papers from England a few hundred years ago to realize this as you really are reading a different language.  Or if you are a citizen of the United States a quick glance at our own 233 year old constitution has many words that the meaning has shifted such as "regulated" which means in good working order.

But I'm here to talk about another issue with a living, changing language and that is how things are spelled.  Again we can look at the constitution and it looks rife with spelling and grammar errors, but it isn't when you consider the time it was written.  Myself I feel we are long overdo to have some major spelling changes to our language--buckle up this is getting fun or messy depending on your viewpoint.

Okay what wise ass decided we need silent letters let alone at the beginning of a word?! We don't say the P in the beginning of Pneumonia, or the K and the beginning of knock, knucklehead, knob, why are they there?!  If we actually spelled them as they sound we would have Newmoanya, Nukelhead, Nob, now to me we not only lose the silent letter but everyone can figure them out with no problem.

Why do we need ck to be a thing?  for that matter the letter C has an identity crisis as it is either a K or an S unless it is matched with an H for ch as in church.  But if we eliminate it, cake becomes kake, and ceiling becomes seiling, same sound but the korrekt letter does the work.  In Spanish they have double letters and combos that only appear together, maybe they got it right?

Now why don't we use the macron in everyday writing?  For those unfamiliar it is a straight line over a vowel to indicate it is a long vowel as opposed to modifier vowels added to a word.  We again eliminate unneeded letters that just sit there as landmines for the unsuspecting.  Let's take for an example cake, spelled my way kāk, or need becomes nēd.  We do hit a stumbling block of similar sounding words, but context tends to fix that so:  "Maura nēds ten thousand dollars to get her shop building up." Is very different from "Maura is nēding the dough for bread."

So impostor letters go away, the letter C is no more except in CH.  Hidden letters such as ai, ei, ie, etc, can be wiped out as well as silent E.  So in practice we would have:

Maura went to the nāborhood stor and bought a tūb of chokōlat flāvord kookē dough, a tub of butter, two new dor nobs, a new kitchen nīf, and thrē rib eye stāks.

Yes it looks funny but with a few simple rule tweaks how much easier is it to use?

Maura out

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