Hello Americans

[Lemur]

There has been a long and storied history of spelling reform. Some of the reforms caught on in some countries but not in others. That is why spellings differ between the U.S.A. and Great Britain, not due to some retention of Elizabethan spellings.

English has horrible spelling. Nobody, but nobody can justify "through." Noah Webster made valiant efforts at reform, almost all of which failed. Ben Johnson, Ben Franklin, Issac Asimov and countless others have made attempts at regularizing this miscegenated, misbegotten language. Read up. It's a whole arena of history of which you were probably unaware.

History of English spelling reform

[Beskar]

I think George Bernard Shaw started off a good effort, with the Shavian alphabet.

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I am apparently distantly related to him as well. According to this random family tree website.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

English has horrible spelling. Nobody, but nobody can justify "through."

They can if they have a background in Middle Engelich

It's all to do with us dropping the 28th letter of the alphabet.

[Hax]

þrough?

[Megas Methuselah]

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

þrough?

Nooo, that's the 27th letter of the alphabet.

[A Nerd]

I tangent, but what does 'chair you' mean?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Presumably "hit you with a chair". Like "google it" means "search for it on google".

[A Nerd]

Oh, ha ha! I get it now. I will have to use that phrase in conversation now when I can! :)