It would be a lot of fun to have a phonemic system of spelling. Ah, but then you'd have people like me who would write grruhl because that's how I say it.

In one of the Beezus and Ramona books there is a line that goes something like this: Beezus always spelled everything correctly, but Ramona couldn't care less about whether she'd spelled something right, as long as people knew what she meant.

Thought that was apt for this thread.