The fact that English preserves the root bindings in so many cases often makes it easier to figure out what a new word means when you encounter it in text. Jus

The fact that English preserves the root bindings in so many cases often makes it easier to figure out what a new word means when you encounter it in text. Just writing the sound would abandon this valuable tool. Anyway, writing the sound just helps the beginning reader. When you read flowing text you don’t actually read the words aloud in your head, letter by letter.