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The Shaw Alphabet
an alternate pronunciation guide or dictionary key spelling
shaw.htm is an addendum to shaw-short which became rather long.
Some purists have been dissatisfied with a spelling reform that retains the conventional Roman sound signs and have advocated going beyond phonemic notations such as Webster's diacritics.
/'webstÃrz dÃÃ'kritiks/ vs. /webstDs dFakritiks/
Both Mark Twain and GBS were dissatisfied with simplified spelling because it looked ugly and uneducated. To have appeal, they reasoned, the phonographic orthography would have be clearly distinguished from conventional spelling.
The Shaw Alphabet [aka Shavian] is the most well known radical reform. A bequest from dramatist an social reformer, George Bernard Shaw [d. 1950], financed a public competition in 1957 - 58 for the design of a new alphabet that would have at least 40 letters and no digraphs [2 letter symbols such as Sh] or diacritics [such as à à à à Ã]. [See Haas, Alphabets for English]
The rules also included provisions to accommodate Shaw's wish that the new spellings should not be seen as uneducated traditional spellings. Both Shaw and Twain believed that this required the abandonment of the Roman alphabet.
Shaw also wanted the new script to have the economic benefits of a linear shorthand. It should be compact and allow rapid hand writing. Read's script did meet all of the expectations:
SY olsO wantad H nM skript tM hav H ekanomik benafits v a linFD shorthAnd.
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