The American Literacy Council supports a movement to make spelling American English easier. Apparently this is not a new movement. The desire to simplify the American language allegedly began in 1908 when Andrew Carnegie helped to create the Simplified Spelling Board, now called the Simplified Spelling Society. Members of these groups and others want to simplify our system of spelling to spell words like they sound. For example the word “said” would be spelled “sed” and I suppose spell would have to be changed to spel. The American (English) language has not had a good overhaul in over 400 years … Continue reading →