Shaw is the bom

"It is a measure of [George Bernard] Shaw's considerable monomania, by the way, that in 1945 he wrote to The Times on the issue of the recently deployed atomic bomb to point out that since the second "b" in the word bomb was needless [...], enormous numbers of working hours were being lost to the world through the practice of conforming to traditional spelling."
(Eats, Shoots & Leaves p. 185)

This George Bernard Shaw fellow sounds very interesting (and witty). I like his argument a lot. I've always complained about how many things the English language does that seem senseless - silent letters being one of them. I've always wished that our language spelled words phonetically, so words would be spelled how they sounded. I think this would be so painless and convenient.

We should start a word revolution.