Alpha had written to me in English, but the words, the sensibility, was African.

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To illustrate by way of analogy: imagine creating a dictionary of French words defined in English to interpret an essay written in French.

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But Masha Bell, author of Understanding English Spelling, says reform of spelling needs to go further and alter the way words are written.

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