Problems in Traditional Spelling Spelling Reform English

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• - Directory of commonly misspelled search terms.
  
• - Even American vice presidents have problems with spelling English words...including beakon, lousey, Vice President's Office of Competativeness (official letterhead) and the infamous "potatoe". Dan Quayle "quotes" compiled by Mel Walker
  
• - Homonyms, doubled internal consonants, internal syllables or letters, words ending in -ance and -able, words ending in -cede, -seed and -sede, the silent -e rule, doubling consonants, words ending in -ie, -ei and -y.
  
• - An article by Cornell Kimball showing inconsistencies in spellings of many traditional American English words in different dictionaries of the English language.
  
• - A humorous look at how the age-old problems of traditional mis-spellings have crept into the internet world even with a bigger force!
  
• - An article by Cornell Kimball on the difficulties writers in English face in deciding the dictation of many common words in day-to-day usage. Also contains sources on 11 publications with lists of commonly misspelled words.
  
• - Article By Duncan MacGregor showing the anomalies in traditional English spelling and arguments for the need of spelling reform for the English language. Links.