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\begin{document}

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English
will be the official language of the EU rather than German, which was
the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that
English spelling had some room for improvement, and has accepted a
5-year phase-in plan that would be known as ``Euro-English'':

\begin{enumerate}
\item
	In the first year 's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly, this
	will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard 'c' will be
	dropped in favour of the 'k'. This should klear up konfusion and
	keyboards kan have one less key.
\item
	There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when
	the troublesome 'ph' will be replased with the 'f'. This will
	make words like 'fotograf' 20\% shorter.
\item
	In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be
	expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are
	possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double leters
	which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also al wil
	agre that the horible mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is
	disgrasful and it should go away.
\item
	By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing
	'th' with 'z' and 'w' wiz 'v'.
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	During ze fifz yer ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords
	kontaining 'ou' and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to
	ozer kombinashuns of leters.
\end{enumerate}

After ziz fifz yer ve vil hav a rali sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no
mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech
ozer.

%\textsc{ze drem vil finali kum tru!!}
\emph{Ze drem vil finali kum tru!!}
	
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