My name is Richard Lawrence Wade from Oxford, England (pronounced Ingland).
I've worked in TV, Radio and Advertising.
I need your help — you read English — to break out of the cage that's been holding us all prisoners for 250 years...
What Cage?Believe it or not, only 17% of native English speakers can spell the following six words correctly:
Height, necessary, accommodation, seperate, sincerely, business
Which of those is spelt wrong? Yes, separate! Did you notice?
ENGLISH SPELLING IS A NIGHTMARE for many people...We have already started to CHANGE IT!
How?But don't worry
This isn't
EducationThis isn't
Formal Reform
This isn't
Boring Old Spelling
This isn't a New Set of
RulesThis is FREESPELING.COM™, its got 2 prongs:1. First - you write with your own speling for those words you find most difficult or illogical. But don't go wild! Don't litter the paj with dozens of unconventional spelings. Treat freedom gently!
Do we really, in the 21st Century, have to write 'yacht' when we actually say 'yot' - just because of its distant Dutch etymology?
2. Second - Freespeling.com™ has already promoted three trial World Votes to stimulate a consensus for simpler, easier spelings which will become a new set of Standard Spelings for the future.
Spelling has been a problem for years. Before TV, people actually tried to make it fun. Imagine!
Is there REALLY a problem?In Britain, there are some 7 million people classed as 'illiterate' — with a reading age of 11 or below.
In the USA, 44 million are said to have literacy skills of a 5th grader or below.
'Illiteracy' may mean a lower income, fewer job opportunities and the shame of being thought Ignorant or Stupid. Thats unfair Discrimination isnt it?
Freespeling.com aims to end the stigma of being a 'Bad Speller' because its the spelling that's wrong!
New research shows English is one of the
most difficult European languages to learn to read and write. To those of us for whom Inglish is our first language, we may hardly remember the nonsense of having to learn to spell words like 'yacht' and 'lamb' or 'cough up phlegm'... but if it's your second or third language, I bet u do!
So what can we do?Well, no one wants to learn a whole set of New Rules, do they? The trouble is that formal reforms, introducing new alphabets and revised spellings imposed from above, have all been tried. Some have worked in individual countries, some have failed. English is now the World Language of the Internet so we cant wait for the United Nations to modernise English, can we!
We don't want to stay stuck with fossils from the past like 'brought' and 'debt' So lets try to encourage a bud to open that has already begun to form. Ever sent a text message on a mobile or cell phone or pager? Did you abbreviate it? If so, you alredy know where to begin!
BUT, no, I'm NOT talking
abbreviation here.
I'm talking...
easier, simpler speling—your way http://www.freespeling.com/
