Speling Rite
Dear Editor;
Did you hear about the British teacher who got so fed up with correcting his students’ bad spelling he wants to allow misspellings to be acceptable. In some cases this might be OK. If you spelled coffee as kawphy everyone would still know what you meant. However, if you spelled potato, as suggested by George Bernard Shaw, by using P as in hiccough, O as in dough, Tas in phthisis. E as in neighbour, T as in gazette and O as in plateau, potato would be spelled this way: GHOUGHPHTHEIGHTTEEAU.
Somehow I can’t see this misspelling being acceptable in any school.
William Bedford.