[efunnekol]

With the very wide variety of English accents around the world, you would have a tough time creating phonetic spelling in English that everyone would agree to. My mother (a true Brit) might want 'wahtah' for water, where I think it is perfect as is.

With that said, there are clearly some things that could be changed.

[madcaptenor]

As a Philadelphian, that should be "wooder".

[DamnInteresting]

Or perhaps 'Filidelfian.'

[thebruce87m]

> a true Brit

There are a wide variety of accents in Britain alone - ‘wahtah’ isn’t recognisable to me for example. It’s a cliche to say brits don’t pronounce “r”, but all you have to do is watch Harry Potter to see all the different accents that do.