> Of course. Just as if nowadays you want to read books published four
> hundred years ago in the original editions. Anybody with antiquarian
> tastes or a fondness for the smell of old books would generally be
> the sort of person with a taste for quaint orthography too.
>
> Certainly I don't think that millions of innocent children should be
> unnecessarily tortured by orthography, just so the tiny minority who
> enjoy the smell of antique books will not be alone in having to learn
> archaic spellings.
I protest your use of "archaic" but give in to the larger point without
needing much convincing. I hated spelling (even though I was good
at it compared with my classmates). Still, I would gag if it meant that
all _our_ work learning this $%@{~ orthography would be lain to waste.
> --And.