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6145226 No.6145226 [Reply] [Original]

Why didn't America go the whole way and make English completely phonetic?

Why did they pussy out so badly?

>> No.6145245

There's too much variation in pronunciation across dialects for that to work.

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>>6145226
Conservatives/traditionalists. Same with switching to metric. They tried to do that in the 70s I think