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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
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Subject: Re: Spelling Reform
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Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 10:18:37 EDT
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> [Don Steiny]
>      In a letter to 'The Economist' in Readers Digest (ages ago),
> M.J.Shields, of Jarrow, England, points out that George Bernard
> Shaw, among others, urged spelling reform, suggesting that one
> letter be altered or deleted each year, thus giving the populace
> time to absorb the change...

There was a classic short story (I believe it was in an Astounding anthology)
entitled "Meihem in Ce Klasrum" along the same lines, but longer and thus
easier to follow.  I've long wanted to have a xerox of it....
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Mike Huybensz				...mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh