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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English4 {5 D9 x6 f) ^! w
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in1 i" t" O5 [, X3 m3 P1 d# Y
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
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* F3 f2 b2 N9 oThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the, d. s. ]0 G. b3 t( T) D4 d
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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2 x9 w* W. k# m6 _, wIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to3 L, G3 h1 N+ M/ I
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.# M& [% g8 O# ]6 {: b a5 f
8 e# Q+ F$ O+ g% g2 u; FGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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! X# c" h' t$ G: X$ kAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and7 m! @; h3 m2 I& w6 \" ?
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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; U8 k3 G0 j- \" B( V8 AZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
; L* U r( U- `7 y |, eunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
: k1 |5 F% d, S+ f# UUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 Z/ x. K0 R& W, U& b7 H+ ^
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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