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No, if only one person uses it in one novel, it's called a "private orthography", and it's kind of pretentious unless it's justified by the work itself, e.g. like that one post-apocalyptic novel that's entirely written in a deliberately degraded form of English as a kind of local color. If all majo...

If ever I take part in a successful revolution, I will make spelling reform one of my goals. Now perhaps I should write one of my novels set in a future where spelling reform has taken place and as a result the whole thing is written in the reformed spelling. English spelling reform will only ever ...

English spelling has all the logic and coherence of a London dockside whore's selection of clients. It is a brothel. It is promiscuous. It is unruly. It is a nightmare to teach. The fundamental problem is that the backward English (they were backward in the 16th and 17th Centuries) decided to write ...