may favor one dialect or pronunciation over others, creating a standard language. Some words have more than one acceptable pronunciation, regardless of dialect (e.g. economic, either). Some distinctions in regional accents are still marked in spelling. Examples include the distinguishing of fern, fir and fur that is maintained in Irish and Scottish English or the distinction between toe and tow that is maintained in a few regional dialects in England and Wales. However, dialectal accents exist even in languages whose spelling is called phonemic, such as Spanish. Some letters have allophonic variation, such as how the letter a in bath currently stands for both and and speakers pronounce it as per their dialect. Some words are distinguished only by non-phonetic spelling (as in knight and night). Spelling reform proposals Most spelling reforms attempt to improve phonemic representation, but some attempt genuine phonetic spelling, usually by changing the basic English alphabet or making a new one. All spelling reforms aim for greater regularity in spelling. Using the basic English alphabet Cut Spelling Handbook of Simplified Spelling SoundSpel Spelling Reform 1 (SR1) Traditional Spelling Revised Wijk's Regularized Inglish Extending or replacing the basic English alphabet These proposals seek to eliminate the extensive use of digraphs (such as "ch", "gh", "kn-", "-ng", "ph", "qu", "sh", voiced and voiceless "th", and "wh-") by introducing new letters and/or diacritics. Each letter would then represent a single sound. In a digraph, the two letters represent not their individual sounds but instead an entirely different and discrete sound, which can lengthen words and lead to mishaps in pronunciation. Notable proposals include: Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet Deseret alphabet Interspel Shavian alphabet (revised version: Quikscript) SaypU (Spell As You Pronounce Universally) Simpel-Fonetik Method of Writing Unifon Some speakers of non-Latin script languages occasionally write English phonetically in their respective writing systems, which may be perceived as an ad hoc spelling reform by some. Historical and contemporary advocates of reform A number of respected and influential people have been active supporters of spelling reform. Orm/Orrmin, 12th century Augustine canon monk and eponymous author of the Ormulum, in which he stated that, since he dislikes that people are mispronouncing English, he will spell words exactly as they are pronounced, and describes a system whereby vowel length and value are indicated unambiguously. He distinguished short vowels from long by doubling the following consonants, or, where this is not feasible, by marking the