There is a long and noble history of trying to change the English language's notoriously illogical system of spelling.
He was also given the opportunity to devise a new system of spelling out Chinese characters with the Roman alphabet that helped hundreds of millions of Chinese peasants learn to read.
From his bully pulpit, he crusaded against "race suicide," prompted by his alarm at falling birth rates among white Americans, and he tried to get the country to adopt a simplified system of spelling.
According to the parliamentary system of government spelled out in Iraq's constitution, drawn up under U.S. supervision in 2005, whoever commands a majority of seats in the parliament forms the government, making it theoretically possible to replace any leader by mustering the support of enough lawmakers.
GR uses a complicated system of tonal spelling that obscures the basic relationship between spelling and tone; for example, the difference between tones 1 and 2 is variously indicated as mha vs. ma, ching vs. chyng, chang vs. charng, etc.
The underlying system of English spelling is "robust and regular," writes David Crystal, "but struggles to be visible through the layers of orthographic practice introduced over centuries".
Baïf was a versatile, inventive poet and experimenter who, for example, invented and made use of a system of phonetic spelling.
The advent of computer and mobile device inputs that rely on pinyin, a system of romanized spelling for Chinese, has cut into the frequency with which people write out characters by hand.
Vallée, who was also a lexicographer, worked toward the modernization of Breton and a system of unified spelling, as did Émile Ernault and Meven Mordiern (pseudonym of René Leroux).
In the last measures of the "Art of Fugue," written just before the composer died, he introduced a four-note melody that when transcribed in the German system of notation spells "B-A-C-H". Escher and Bach are only the beginning of Professor Hofstadter's Shandean digressions.
A strong culture is a system of rules that spells out how people should behave [ 25].
