Whitlam government, and author of Chemical Shorthand for Organic Formulae (1943), and a proponent of the proposed SR1, which he used in ministerial correspondence. Allan Kiisk, professor of engineering, linguist (multi-lingual), author of Simple Phonetic English Spelling (2013) and Simpel-Fonetik Dictionary for International Version of Writing in English (2012). Anatoly Liberman, professor in the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota advocates spelling reforms at his weekly column on word origins at the Oxford University Press blog. Current President of the English Spelling Society. See also "The Chaos", a poem demonstrating the irregularity of English spelling Folk etymology Ghoti History of English grammars History of the English language List of reforms of the English language Orthographies and dyslexia Phonemic orthography The Phonetic Journal Phonological history of English References Further reading Bell, Masha (2004), Understanding English Spelling, Cambridge: Pegasus Bell, Masha (2012), SPELLING IT OUT: the problems and costs of English spelling, ebook Bell, Masha (2017), English Spelling Explained, Cambridge, Pegasus Children of the Code An extensive, in depth study of the illiteracy problem. Crystal, David. Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling (St. Martin's Press, 2013) Condorelli, M. (2022). Pragmatic Framework. In Standardising English Spelling: The Role of Printing in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century Graphemic Developments (Studies in English Language, pp. 40-58). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hitchings, Henry. The language wars: a history of proper English (Macmillan, 2011) Kiisk, Allan (2013) Simple Phonetic English Spelling - Introduction to Simpel-Fonetik, the Single-Sound-per-Letter Writing Method, in printed, audio and e-book versions, Tate Publishing, Mustang, Oklahoma. Kiisk, Allan (2012) Simpel-Fonetik Dictionary - For International Version of Writing in English, Tate Publishing, Mustang, Oklahoma. Lynch, Jack. The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park (Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2009) Marshall, David F. "The Reforming of English Spelling". Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity: The Success-Failure Continuum in Language and Ethnic Identity Efforts (2011) 2:113+ Wolman, David. Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling. HarperCollins, 2009. . Zimmerman, Jonathan. "Simplified Spelling and the Cult of Efficiency in the 'Progressiv' Era." Journal of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era (2010) 9#3 pp. 365-394 External links "English accents and their implications for spelling reform", by J.C. Wells, University College London The OR-E system: Orthographic Reform of the English Language EnglishSpellingProblems blog by Masha Bell "Spelling reform: It