From: Angasule
Message: 1017
Date: 2001-03-11
>Yup, specially since you're very picky but don't agree what's right! I
> Heill Keth
>
> Yes, there was an attempt at a spelling reform in the
> States. It was sometime in the late 70's or early
> 80's. It didn't really go anywhere. However, it did
> seem to make it acceptable to write "night" as "nite"
> and "light" as "lite". Although, this is not an
> official thing.
>
> Its a funny thing, we Americans are very picky about
> how our language is spelled eventhough better than
> half of us can't speak it worth a damn.
> I think thatI'm from Argentina, and we are often told by other Spanish speaking
> the reform in the 70's was doomed to failure at the
> time because of our geographic isolation from the rest
> of the world. Much like Iceland. Now with the wide
> spread use of the internet that isolation is on its
> way out. I don't believe that an actual spelling
> change will occure because of any official change. I
> doubt that one day Webster's Dictionary will come out
> and say "Now 'light' is 'lite'. Though it may happen,
> the contraction "ain't" is now in the Dictionary.
> AnThat is, of course, completely bogus :) 'gh' has the [f] value in some
> interesting side note to this is the reason there was
> a move to change the spelling in the first place was
> that with the pronuniciation of English depending on
> the word and not the letter it is quite possible to
> write the word "fish" as "ghoti". The "gh" as in
> "rough". The "ti" as in "nation" and I can't remember
> where the "o" comes from. But it works.