Peter Daniels wrote:

[PTD} English spelling is widely regarded as quasi-logographic

I'm just realizing that, for the first time. It's something of a shock.

[PTD] (giving rise to the "whole word" method of Leaving Every Child
Behind),

Peter, bless you, thrice. :)
At the risk of being a pain, I'll say yet again that the "w.w.m." creates
an utterly appalling form and degree of sub-literacy.

[PTD] and it most certainly is not "horrendously inconsistent" or "in no
wise a system"!

Surely so, indeed.

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