Alternativ SPELLING for the Milennium

The first step for Internationl English Spelling is
to -

What is a surplus letter?

- 'Surplus' letrs are useless. They dont show you how to pronounce a word or help you to know its meaning.

- Surplus letrs mislead lernrs.

- Spelrs make mistakes because they do not know what the missing letrs are or where they should go.

Streamline! Save time, energy, paper, money and hassl
by leaving out useless letrs in words.

You can cut out	When the extra letters are useless	Exampls of words without surplus letrs
Dubld consonants	When they don't tell you how to pronounce a word  Over 56% of writers leave out surplus letrs in acomodate - so - spel it acomodate Dubld letrs are useful when they tel you how to say a word e.g hopping rather than hoping and showing the stress in umbrella	acomodate posibl letr tecnicly apl
Silent letrs	When they mislead readrs about how to say a word, and make words hardr to spel, as in technically, foreign, people, guarantee, sieve, queue discipline	tecnicly forin peple garantee siv Q disiplin
Silent final 'e'	When silent 'e' misleads readrs and spelrs (Silent final 'e' is useful when it shows that an erlier vowel is pronounced as a long vowel, as in finite, minute (small), live (not liv)	infinit minut liv composit infinit probabl simpl litl privat detectiv

The 'Sixteen Word Spelling Test' can show you that nobody (almost) can spell properly when it comes to putting surplus letters in the right places.

Some of the following words may be spelled 'incorrectly'. Write out all the words in conventional spelling:

Internationaly, F and not PH is the usual spelling for Greek-origin words
and English spelling is moving that way too.

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