You’ve always been particularly fond of this splendid entry into the debate about whether or not to simplify English spelling, usually attributed to Mark Twain:
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter “c” would be dropped to be replased either by “k” or “s”, and likewise “x” would no longer be part of the alphabet. [...]
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On a plan for the improvement of English spelling.
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On korrect speling.
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When you were about nine years old you were extracted from the classes that everyone else was attending in order to do extra nature study.
It was one of those half arsed efforts schools make sometimes towards catering for ‘gifted’ children, the quotation marks there being entirely justified as the lesson you were lifted out of on the grounds [...]
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