Spelling is ruining the English language

[Kingswood]

Originally Posted by Cyber Wolf

I have to ask...

Aside from your wanting it to be so

Don't misrepresent what I say.

Originally Posted by Cyber Wolf

, what's to stop 'liv' from being pronounced with a drawn 'i', similar to the word 'leave'?

It would be spelt on a similar pattern to words like sit, him, dish? Do you have trouble with these words?

Originally Posted by Cyber Wolf

The standard issue vowel 'i' has the potential for three sounds. This allows for your commuted 'live' to have three forms: 'liv' as in 'I live in the US.', 'leeve' as in "We leave in 10 minutes." and 'live' as in "Saturday Night Live".

Again, you are misrepresenting what I have said.

Originally Posted by Cyber Wolf

Does your rule bank on the fact that we currently use the 'ea' to create the 'ee' sound in 'leave' to remove that sound from the list of possibilities? Do you have a rule in your New Spelling Order transform 'leave' into 'leev' to fix that problem?

The redundant silent e in "leave" is only there so that you know it's not a u.

As for the ea digraph, I count it as a regular spelling. I have already said that.