Tomay-toe, tomah-toe, nuclear, nucular…

http://www.umich.edu/NewsE/03_06/words.html

This made me laugh this morning. Did you know that Roosevelt tried to mandate a re-spelling of about 300 words to be used by the Government in their publications so that they would be spelled the way they are pronounced? But, “the Supreme Court claimed that the separation of powers meant that the Executive could not tell the Court how to spell.”