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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English0 e+ ~; E9 F( a1 ^; ?, l6 e6 f3 F7 P3 ?
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% S$ [+ m/ T& q& ]/ D, y
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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; i5 ]3 `- p2 I& i. ?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
G0 g( f1 |; A" q5 |konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.9 D8 {2 J& u+ P6 S3 @! c, \
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the, G2 R2 n P$ a' k- g% j
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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, D4 b2 I9 y7 b/ N) s$ b" X* kIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to& I$ g) ?8 P- K3 H& |3 S- |
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.) S; m1 Q- v6 H8 x5 t5 n
' \' A6 V" M! _' S2 O2 h/ V1 _# k' F+ nGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
. O3 v" A l3 ?8 a- N+ Qben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, 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"and
- g" i$ g' R I) n% }4 Xafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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/ ]$ `" K: d- K5 A6 UZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
( }& h$ T# {0 O! U. b7 n$ |understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
5 s: k7 T9 K8 ~$ ]6 A1 oUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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