comment ter vs tre  Hi Loved your essay  I have had some thoughts in this direction my self  My goal was not only to unify English spelling but to make it more consistent and easier I like the ideas you have here as beginning that    I do have one thing Id like to comment on ter vs tre   As in center vs centre  Everytime I see tre I want to pronounce the lettres in the order they appear   As used in outr  So I end up with sentray for centre and senter for center  I agree it would be better to have just one unified way to spell the r sound  I understand your point about etymology but Im seeing eventual confusion of people over centres and lettres bettres wettres letters betters wetters  There are many more words that end in er in Commonwealth English CE than ones that end in re  Its a smaller change to have all words with the r sound at the end in er form then changing them all to  the re form  This reflects the idea that simpler more internally consistent spelling is best and it still provides a path to the Unified spelling that is your goal     PS  have you seen Mark Twains ideas for fixing English Spelling  httpwebarchiveorgwebhttpusersteleramacomjosephsimplehtml Funny and True