Daniels and Bright · Diane McGuinness · Nathaniel Swain · The Conversation

Reform the spelling system? Not likely! Train the teachers!

In spite of having written on this issue a number of times before (here, here and here), after reading Nathaniel Swain’s piece in The Conversation ‘Trying to change English’s complex spelling is a waste of time’, I feel moved to say more on the subject. Essentially, Swain is quite right! The trouble is that, although he… Continue reading Reform the spelling system? Not likely! Train the teachers!