alt Hacker NewsOr Andrew Jackson approaching the problem from the other end.
“It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.”
As a rather, well... "creative" speller I blame Webster for locking things down and ruining it for the rest of us.
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jimmydddd • today at 1:52 AM
I few years ago I saw a TV interview where some gen-z kid confidently stated: "the dictdionary is supposed to reflect how I talk, not the other was around."
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Different languages went down different paths in this regard, each with their own interesting advantages and disadvantages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthographic_depth