Let’s Do Away with the Letter C

I’m on a campaign to do away with the letter “c”. Wouldn’t we be better off without it? Think about it. We teach our children phonics to learn to read and then mark them down on spelling when they use phonics to spell.

The letter “c” is a big culprit in this area. It doesn’t have its own sound. It sounds like either a “k” or an “s”. So why don’t we spell that way? In my first sentence it would be kampaign. Sure it looks funny, but it sounds right. Phonics would be phoniks, culprit would be kulprit. You get the pikture. Even my komputer is having trouble with this konsept. It keeps changing the “k” bak to a “c”.

Now the only glitch in my theory is with the “ch”. We would still need that for the unique sound it makes, but other languages add such letter combinations for various sounds.

So who’s with me? Are we ready for a change in our spelling? Bekause I have more suggestions to make the language easier to learn and spell, for instance, doing away with silent letters. Take the word “pneumonia.” The p isn’t pronounsed so get rid of it. We kould bekome a more effisient sosiety if we spelled everything phonetikally.

And then there are words spelled the same but said differently – read, read or lead, lead. What is that all about? I think the wordsmiths of old just sat up nights thinking of ways to mess with our heads. And there is another example – why is it heed and not head pronounsed differently.

English speaking people of the world unite to make life easier for those trying to learn to read and speak our language! Or maybe we shouldn’t. It might be more fun to leave it the way it is and mess with some heads.