Brain scans using fMRI showed that, when listening to
English phonetic sounds, monolinguals, early bilinguals and late bilinguals» brains lit up in different areas.
Knowing what I do about the
English language and its spelling, and how it came about, I would not dream of advocating that
English spelling should be made completely
phonetic, with one - to - one relationships between
sounds and letters, with merely 44 spellings for the 44
English sounds.