English is a very ... language to read because the same sounds have different spellings. Over the years people have tried to change this to ... the spelling of English. In America in the early 1900s, the Simplified Spelling Board met and ... the changes they wanted to make to some ... . They spoke to the American president - Theodore Roosevelt - and he ... . He told the government ... to use simplified spelling on all government letters. But the president could not get the ... to agree and so all work on the idea stopped. Nowadays we have some words that are spelt simply but this is ... in advertisements.