Homophonic errors are not seldom seen in posts, pronunciation faults rarely.
English is a constant PITA in this respect (compared to, say German).
"Ortography" comes to mind, and the "ghoti" pronunciation,so often mistakenly attributed to G.B. Shaw:
Link: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=81
I guess reforms for less spelling irregularities has been going on as long, and has been just as successful as the Metrication?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englis...irregularities
Just couldn't resist.
Cheers
Johan

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