SoundSpel is a regular and mostly phonemic English-language spelling reform proposal. Written with the 26-letter ISO basic Latin alphabet, it is fully compatible with the QWERTY keyboard. SoundSpel can represent dialectal pronunciation, but it was originally based on General American English. Dating back to 1910, SoundSpel was developed "in response to the widely held conviction that English spelling is more complex than it needs to be." The has endorsed the reform because English speakers can easily read it. According to the Dictionary of Simplified American Spelling, "[SoundSpel] is fully compatible with traditional spelling and can be mixed with it in any proportion desired."