What about similar oddities in English?
(This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/193/ (link found by BunScientist@lemmy.zip)) Edit: it's to its in the title. Damn autocorrect.

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Reed, red. Homophones should be homographs too.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What dialect of English will we base the new spelling system on?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    All of them. If you speak some weird rural UK accent you spell it differently. And certain people from New York, for example, spell curl as coil.

    I think this would be the same in RP as it is in most American-ish accents, though.

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