>In summary, then… as long as people understand the ways accents vary (a body of knowledge which will clearly be one of the main influences on the system's rule

>In summary, then… as long as people understand the ways accents vary (a body of knowledge which will clearly be one of the main influences on the system's rules, but which any Cockney already needs for communication with non‐Cockneys), there is no reason to imagine that there are any insurmountable problems here I'm not sure how the author comes to that conclusion. Assuming, as he does, that this isn't intended to fix pronunciation, all it does is introduce a new set of inconsistent spellings. For example, my wife pronounces "pass" and "parse" pretty much the same way, where as I pronounce "pass" in the same way as "ass", but pronounce "parse" in the same way as her. As far as I can see, there's no one consistent way to spell all of these words so that they make phonetic sense to both of us. Or you've got "scone", should that use the same phonetic spelling as "cone" or "one"?