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Given how complicated languages are and how very strange some spellings are I would not equate IQ and spelling. Education may be a part of it. However, try explaining why "there" and "their" sound the same to a nonnative English speaker. Or why "beer" and "ear" and "bare" and "bear" sound the same.

Then there are languages in which some words contain letters / phonemes that don't appear in pronunciation. It can make you dizzy.
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