I want to point out that one of the sources for that quora answer is this post on Language Log (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=5669 http://languagelog.

I want to point out that one of the sources for that quora answer is this post on Language Log (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=5669 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=5669), which is well worth reading. There's quite a lot of good reading there about spelling, writing systems, and so on.