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American English makes nowhere near enough simplifications to the English spelling
The problem with simplifying spelling is that the simplifications wouldn’t make sense; apparently, according to some YouTube video I can’t find anymore.
And according to another video I could find, English was made harder to spell on purpose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07f-cKWRtk
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