I think so too, Wolfgang. My betting is on the Sun...
Actually, I think the story first surfaced as a send-up of George Bernard Shaw's proposed spelling reforms. I seem to recall reading it somewhere in a book on linguistics, and I think that version had the ending that you mentioned. I suppose entertaining jokes don't ever really die.
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