Ah yes, the joys of English spelling....!Que barbaridad! Add the facts that some of our German ancestors were illiterate when they got here and their names were transliterated into an English that was spelled differently (but often more phonetically) than it is now, and you got a mess.
My Palatine German forebears were named Koete, with an umlaut over the "o". They ended up "Cady," (a perfectly good IRISH surname)!
TR was right about spelling reform, as in so many things.
(Sorry for the OT rant, but as a former teacher of English as a second language, this post, which is otherwise fascinating, set me off.).
Last edited by Mike A.; 06/12/16 11:20 AM.
