Finished reading the very funny ‘Eats Shoots and Leaves’ by Lynne Truss. She references a letter sent by George Bernard Shaw to the Times in 1945 following the dropping of the atom bomb. The main point Shaw makes is that the second ‘b’ in bomb is linguistically unnecessary. This is a frightening level of madness.

However, there is a grain of truth in what Shaw says and others pointed out that there were huge savings in time and cost to be made by getting rid of superfluous letters. For example, letters would work just as well as leters. Think of all the time and cost savings by millions of administrative staff never having to type that extra ‘t’.

Accommodation - how much simpler if it was acomodation. Again, significant eficiencies to be made. Discusion. Coments. Blogrol. Cal Centres. Clasification. Comunication.

I’ve already saved half a dozen key strokes with the above. Now multiply this by all the people in work at this moment and it’s clear that the transformation of public services is still in the era of pre-history.