Quote Originally Posted by Makeitstop View Post
If we're gonna screw with the language, can't we just eliminate the letter C? It can always be replaced by S or K.

While were at it, Y will be a consonant full time, QU will now be KW, and P and K will never be silent.

Or we could just say to hell with it and focus our energy on something that actually matters.
Retired Prof. speaking here. George Bernard Shaw left a sum of money to reform the English language. Part of the blame must go to my patron saint, Bede the Venerable, who more or less forced Saxon into a Latin alphabet, hence some of our weird spellings! One prime example is "ghoti" spells "fish", how? "gh" is the "f" sound as in enough. o is the short "i" sound as in women and "ti" is the "sh" or "esh" sound as in nation Maybe we should all adopt the broad romic phonetic alphabet (invented by Henry Sweet and Paul Pasie) or go to idiographs like the Chinese? So perhaps it best to stick with common use and just call it a Kilt? (A kilt by any other name is still a kilt)