# \#spelling

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## [The Simplified Spelling Board](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-simplified-spelling-board/1461)

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**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
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**Last updated:** [1 June 2022 14:30 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-simplified-spelling-board/1461 "2022-06-01T14:30:11Z")

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When Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain, and Theodore Roosevelt tried to “improve” spelling of the English language. “After all, ‘LOL’ is now in the Oxford English Dictionary.”