Modern Spelling Not "Illogical" (Score 1)

It's precisely BECAUSE words are spelled the way they are that we can make sense of them. Their spellings and structures preserve their etymological origins in many cases. If we spelled it "wain", then words like "vinyard", "vintage" and "vintner" would make NO sense (not the best example but it's all I've got on short notice like this). No child would ever have any idea why the word "extraordinary" is used the way it is if we spelled it "ekstrordinaree". I can't stress enough the IMPORTANCE of our current spelling system in learning associations between related words. Besides, if you spell things "how they sound", then you'd have to determine who's "right"? I live in Georgia and if we went by how the people down here talk, the house would have a "ruf" and a radius would be the distance from the edge of a circle to its "sinner". In Georgia, when you lose a "pin", it means that you can no longer write. Don't even get them started on "pecans". And it even goes further than regional differences. I speak with what most Americans consider a neutral accent. But the British would disagree. If we changed our spelling based on neutral American English we'd have a SIGNIFICANTLY larger library of disparities with British English that children would have to learn. Basically, this is just another example of the bottom 20% or so trying to muck things up for the rest of the population that GETS IT.