English spellings are rather odd given the teutonish birth of English. For instance, in English we spell /kw/ "qu", but this cluster (or the kincluster /kv/) is mostly spelt "kw" (or "kv") in the teutonish tungs of Europe (as it was in Old English). After the Norman Conquest in 1066, English not only borrowed a great deal of outland words, but it also became spelt so as to look like French (and other Latinborn tungs). Some say that these shifts have made English spelling far less logical and straightforward. Below is a list of thoughts for how English could be spelt if it were to use the analogy of the other teutonish tungs.
/θ/ "Thing" and /ð/ "This" could be "Þ" (known as "thorn")
/tʃ/ "Cheek" could be "c"
/ʃ/ "Ship" could be "Sc"
/kw/ "Queen" could be "CW"
/k/ "Cat" would be abolished in favor of "C"
Also, "le" and "re", as in "hurdle" and "centre", would be respelt as "el" and "er".
The net therefore would be something like this:
Þe þohtful man coht his wif a cwic and cuning gré fisc.
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