David
Phonetic spelling dictates that we no longer have an agreed way of doing things.
It'll simply be a vowel-and-consonant free-for-all!
You can't keep refering to this 1800s dictionary and drawing comparisons to today, since going the phonetic way will, in effect, throw the dictionary out the window!
We're not talking about history repeating itself in terms of changes to the dictionary.
There will be no dictionary, since everyone will be spelling words however they want.