English spelling origin (OT?)

[Mark A Mandel]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Dave Hause wrote:

#A relayed question from a friend's six year old daughter, who had missed one
#word on a spelling test and thus sentenced herself to have to write out the
#spelling words for the rest of the week and retake the test:  "quick"
#spelled as "quik."  "But Mommy, why is that wrong?  They would both be
#pronounced with the same sound."  I haven't the vaguest idea where to
#research this.

The poor kid was probably corrupted by Nestle's brand of chocolate drink
powder.

-- Mark A. Mandel