Yeah.... and I'll bet you 10 to 1, that is one of the biggest reasons you come up short....... every year on letter usage in your country.
Wasting letters unnecessarily by inserting '
e', '
u', and other silent letters is jut a gross waste in letters throughout a year's performance in lettering. Down here, we have an overabundance of letters at the end of the year, simply because we have learned how not to waste .... mostly those precious vowels, you people take for granted.
Heck, there's even a television show dedicated to this. When you ask Vanna for a vowel.... it costs an additional $250 for a vowel, while consonants are still free if you guess them right.
It's all about how or what you value in life. In our profession, whether you're a sign maker or a sign makerette..... we choose to do it the correct way and save our precious alphabet for as long as we can.