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by bluGill 1038 days ago
Gám doesn't need the following e anymore as it is only there to indicate long A.
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Yes, but that would change the ASCII spelling, to which there seems to be tremendous resistance in English-speaking countries.

But if we sneakily added entirely optional accents to the existing spelling, then in another hundred years maybe the vestigial hint letters could be cleaned up. (Probably not — see French spelling which is 50% silent letters from ancient orthography and Latin roots. But even the French system, despite its complex rules, is internally consistent unlike English.)