Start by freespeling ONLY A FEW WORDS on each page — the ones you find tricky or illogical. Don't change just for the sake of change. Help your readers, don't confuse them Drop let(t)ers you don't need: de(b)t, (k)nee, favo(u)r, ax(e), definit(e) If u spel a word as it sounds, remember different regions and countries have different pronunciations. Some fonetic speling wil work fine, some wont. Don't worry if you cant be (c)konsistent Chanj double leters like: (ph)fotograf(ph), (p)syk(ch)ology, sk(ch)ool Praktis by using words most people already recognize: love = luv; though = tho; doughnut = donut. How about what = wot; foreigner = foriner...? Freespel for comprehension, clarity and cumfort Don't freespel proper names: Charles or Cecilia (they mite not like it), nor Chicago or China Drop apostrof(ph)ees wher the meaning is clear: dont, cant, theyll Remember the great freespelers: Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I ...they were writing before spelling got fossilised " ...to dye, to sleepe no more; and by a sleepe, to say we end The heart-ake and the thousand naturall shockes That flesh is heyre too? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To dye, to sleep, To sleep, perchance to dreame, I there's the rub" first Folio 1623, Hamlet Put a at the start of each page to show youre not ignorant but chooz to be a leader of the pack...to freespel (for in Word, key Alt+Insert, Symbol/Font then line 4, is next to ) REMEMBER - Start by freespeling ONLY A FEW WORDS on each page. To use some of the new easier simpler freespelings from the World Votes, klik the New Freespelings button

No, not if you really do freespel just a few tricky words for the comprehension, clarity and cumfort of your reader. Text messaging has changed the way we think about speling. Mobiles, cell fones, pagers, emails, abbreviations...freely spelt...ONE BILLION text messages a month in the UK alone...so, how many emails — many actually freespelt! — world wide? Quite soon people wil get used to seeing more and more unconventional spelings - in letters, emails, chat rooms, ads and even magazines and newspapers.

Freespeling.com aims to produce a new set of easier freespelings that many people wil feel cumfortable with and start to use. Before long these freespelings – like frend for friend, axident for accident – will seem so sensible and natural, youll wonder how they were spelt before! Theyll be absorbed to become Standard Spelings.

We have alredy run three World Votes and published 45 new easier freespelings – take a look by kliking the New Freespelings button. But you can now help elect 500 new freespelings – take part in the new world vote for the Freespeling 500 File!