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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 09 July 2015 04:27:20PM 4 points [-]

Spelling reform will fail because of regional differences in pronunciation.

Well, you won't be able to accommodate everybody's pronunciation, but with a decent diaphonemic system could allow you to deduce the pronunciation of almost all words in most mainstream varieties of English from their spelling.