English ~ It's a Crazy Language!

I was surfing the Net the other day and happend across this interesting tid-bit:

Aoccdrnig to a rsaeerch at a Birsith Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmotnat tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Ins't taht cool?! Reading it made me recall an article a high school teacher once handed out to the class:

It has often been pointed out that communication would be simpler if English spelling were not so unnecessarily difficult; for example, cough, plough, rough, through and thorough. A gradual program of changes would wipe out these anomalies.
In the first year, ‘s’ would be used instead of the soft ‘c’. Sertainly sivil servants in all sities would reseive this news with joy. Then the hard ‘c’ could be replased by ‘k’ sinse both letters are pronounsed alike. Not only would this klear up konfusion in the minds of klerikal workers, but typewriters kould be made with one less letter. And English would look more like German.
There would be growing enthusiasm when, in the sekond year, it was anounsed that the troublesome ‘ph’ would henseforth be written ‘f’. This would make words like ‘fotograf’ twenty persent shorter to print.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reash the stage where more komplikated shages are possible. Governments would enkourage the removal of double leters, whish have always been a deterent to akurate speling.
We would al agre that the horible mes of silent ‘e’s in the languag is disgrasful. Therfor we kould drop them and kontinu to read and writ as though nothing had hapend. By this tim it would be four years sins the skem began, and peopl would be reseptiv to steps sutsh as replasing ‘th’ by ‘z’. Perhaps zen ze funktion of ‘w’ kould be taken on by ‘v’, vitsh is, after al, half a ‘w’.
Shortly after zis, ze unesesary ‘o’ kould be dropd from vords kontaining ‘ou’. Similar arguments vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
Kontinuing zis proses yer after yer, ve vud eventuli hav a reli sensibl riten styl. After tventi yers zer vud be no mor trubls, difikultis, and evrivun vud find it ezi tu understand etsh ozer.

~ The Vancouver Sun

'nuff said.

Hvae a graet day!