English bristles with spelling-related discord ... (‘First Grammatical Treatise’) adapted the Latin alphabet for Old Icelandic, detailing the phonological principles behind the task.

Even the most skilled spellers will admit that English is a mess ... In his 1768 “Scheme for a New Alphabet and Reformed Mode of Spelling,” he proposed removing six letters from the alphabet ...

Shaw also supported reform with the existing alphabet. He was a major supporter of the Simplified Spelling Society, which — now called the English Spelling Society — is still around ...

In a version used briefly by the British Royal Army, the spelling alphabet begins with Ack, Beer, which is what I say when I realize I’ve shown up empty-handed to a party. The NATO alphabet rema ...

They still wished for a phonetic English spelling. They weren't the only ones. Over a century ago, linguists had to develop an international phonetic alphabet to enable them to record particular ...

As John McWhorter, author of “Words on the Move,” writes, “English spelling is a tragic accident ... be conjured by all of the vowels in the alphabet. So it can be particularly challenging ...

The spelling primer’s first edition conformed to traditional English orthography ... solutions—including adding new letters to the alphabet, removing existing letters from the alphabet ...