Spelling is a personal thing. The Z annoys me too but Australia has its own frustrating lingo like gaol. Jail is better. Then there are all those Frenchified English words like programme, enough to send anyone off the program.

A cousin of mine is dylexic and she spells everything phonetically. Her letters are quite legible and amusing too. English is in process. If its alive it will always be surprising if not a little annoying at times. Best to switch off the spell checker and leave in all the mistakes. This is better than trying to impress how clever you are at writing a bastard language.

Shakefpeare couldn't fpell. No-one bothered in hif day because they were all making up their own wordf and fpelling them as they pleafed.
But those of us that could read got the message.

Barfenzie, "gaol" is hardly an affectation, but a form of the spelling which comes from Norman French, and therefore 1066, in English. It is "jail" which is the affectation, coming from the usual American ignorance which gave us "airplane" since aeroplane was soooo confusing for your average septic. Gaol is still in official use in this country even if the web and Monopoly have eroded its use.

As for "Shakefpeare" you are kidding, aren't you? What you have taken for an "f" is the Early Modern English form of the letter "s" (lower case long 's"). I suppose you also say "yee" for "ye"? It's actually "thee" since the letter "y" represents a letter no longer used in the alphabet (lower case thorn) (doesn't stop ignoramuses calling themselves "Ye Olde Shoppe").