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English has many different accents, so what's phonetic for one accent wouldn't be for another. It would result in different spelling conventions in different
by DonaldFisk 8y ago
English has many different accents, so what's phonetic for one accent wouldn't be for another. It would result in different spelling conventions in different parts of the UK and the USA.
- stewbrew 8y agoThe same is true for Spanish. But they had a much better basis to begin with. The problem with English is that it's a mix of many influences (I'm not talking about different accents but about entirely different languages) that never got cleaned up.