Does spelling always lag behind pronunciation?
English speakers seem to take pride (or maybe frustration) in how little our writing system seems to match up with the pronunciation system. Come across a word in writing that you've never heard before? Good luck.
Why don't we just make the writing system simpler? Countless people have asked this, including (perhaps most famously) Noah Webster, and they …
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