The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the "New" EU or European Community rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her majesty's Government condeded that English spelling has some room for imporvement and has accepted a five-year phase in plan that would be known as "Euro-English". In the first year "s" will replace the sofe "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump for joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favor of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have one fewer letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replased with the "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expeted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments enkourage the removal of double leters which have alway ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent 'e" in the languag is disgraseful and it should go away. By the fourth year peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with 'z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yer ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After ziz fifz yer ve vil hav a rali sensible riten styl. Zer vil be no mor truble or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil fianli kum tru!