> It is harder than it looks to fix spelling because ... Of what you say and lots of things too. Much of the existing mess is caused by spelling "reform" of t

> It is harder than it looks to fix spelling because ... Of what you say and lots of things too. Much of the existing mess is caused by spelling "reform" of the ages past, such as when the Norman scribes half-replaced the conventions evolved by Anglo-Saxon scribes with French ones. It's not very different from https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/.