Benjamin Franklin too was an advocate of reforming spelling, and phonetic spelling. Seems to be a recurring theme for English because it's such a difficult lan

Benjamin Franklin too was an advocate of reforming spelling, and phonetic spelling. Seems to be a recurring theme for English because it's such a difficult language owing largely to its awful spelling. But it has never, and probably will never, take off, unless, perhaps, we first have a Jacobin Revolution in the U.S. and UK, complete with a Terror of our own. God forbid. (Though even that didn't fix the French language.)