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Evan Bartlett
Jun 02, 2015

As one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, it's a wonder how complicated English is.
The tongue of Shakespeare, the lingua franca of world business, one of the UN's official languages, is so full of quirks and idiosyncrasies as to be infuriating.
To remedy this, the Oxford Dictionaries team have collated 11 simplifications that could make English so much easier to master:
1. doughnut - donut
2. through - thru
3. though - tho
4. night - nite
5. borough - boro
6. rhyme - rime
7. photo(graph) - foto(graf)
8. friend - frend
9. bureaucrat - burocrat
10. doubt - dout
11. island - iland
For a more detailed explanation of each proposed change, head over to the OD blog here.
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