I was listening to the news (watching it rather) and I heard about another problem with the Qantas airlines. Qantas, was pronounced "kwantas" and which would lead you to believe that it had a U in it...perhaps the Q should be used alone for the sound QU and the C for CH...
We could try to reduce the amount of digraphs...like introduce old letters like eth, and thorn from Old English and get rid of my DH and TH... Introduce ezh and esh for ZH and SH...
Meh...Je ne sais pas...
You could make it based on Romance phonetics since a good chunk of the English lexicon is Romance/Greek...or maybe German. English...is a conglomerate of all of these influences...it's that unique...and it needs its own orthography.
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