In TO, words that are spelled the same are not pronounced the same. Words that are pronounced the same are not spelled the same. One can overhaul the spelling rules without changing any of the other components of a writing system . Spelling reform proposals differ with respect to how much of the TO, the eratic system to which we have become accustom, they wish to retain.
Students can usually spell words in a foreign language better than they can spell in English.
Orthographic options for dictionary spellings. A little history on how English came to be the way it is. The Arguments for Systematic Spelling George Bernard Shaw on Spelling Reform . Preface to The Miraculous Birth of Language by Wilson. All clipped spelling proposals do this.