poor Francophones with all their silent letters

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060705/ap_on_re_us/simpl_wurdz
I think the author kind of blew it as far as promoting the idea of simplified English. He proved in his article that different folks have different ideas on what constitutes simple spelling. Further, if a spelling reformation law was written retroactively, all hell would break loose trying to correct past publications.

Besides, after reading the author's intentional misspellings...

EYE HAVVA HEDDAKE!!!