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.
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.