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	Shavian alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Posthumously funded by and named after Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, the Shavian alphabet (also known as Shaw alphabet) was conceived as a way to provide a simple, phonetic orthography for the English language to replace the difficulties of the conventional spelling.
		Shaw set two main criteria for the new alphabet: that it should be phonetic, with as great as possible a 1:1 correspondence between letters and sounds; and that it should be distinct from the Latin alphabet so as to avoid the impression that the new spellings were simply "misspellings".
		Paul Vandenbrink has created a modified Shavian alphabet which takes the controversial step of replacing most of the specific vowel letters with markers indicating which of several sets of vowel types a vowel belongs to, thus reducing the number of vowel distinctions and lessening the written differences between dialectical variations of English.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shavian_alphabet (1024 words)

	Deseret alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Deseret alphabet is a phonetic alphabet developed in the mid-19th century by the board of regents of the University of Deseret (later the University of Utah) under the direction of Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
		The alphabet was intended to replace the traditional Latin alphabet with an alternate, more phonetically accurate alphabet for the English Language.
		Another goal in creating the Deseret Alphabet was to offer all faithful Mormons a unifying script that might encourage a sense of community among recent European converts, as well as a higher sense of difference from non-Mormons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deseret_alphabet (427 words)

	Shavian Alphabet
		The Shavian alphabet is named after George Bernard Shaw and was devised by Kingsley Read.
		Shaw saw use of the Latin alphabet for writing English as a great waste of time, energy and paper, so in his will he stipulated that a competition should be held to create a new writing system for English and made provision for a prize of £500.
		Few other texts were printed and the alphabet, which became known as Shavian, was never seriously considered as an alternative for writing English.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/shavian.htm (285 words)

	Shavian Alphabet - Introducing Shavian
		The Shavian alphabet exists as an alternative to the Roman alphabet in which most English is written.
		The Roman alphabet in more-or-less its current state was brought to England by Latin-speaking monks.
		With its 26 letters, this alphabet was used to write Latin very efficiently, but it is not ideally suited to transcribing the English language, which has over 40 basic speech sounds.
	www.saytheword.org.uk /shavian/about.html (590 words)

	Shavian - Shaw Alphabet
		It became the customary alphabet for written English, as Latin was the language of education, at the time, that the writing of English.
		The Shaw alphabet was developed in between 1958 and 1959, at the specific bequest of George Bernard Shaw, the famous playwright.
		There IS an alphabet that does not use stupid spellings, that uses word constructions that correspond precisely to the spoken sounds, and that does indeed suit the language perfectly: this dream alphabet is Shavian.
	www.foolswisdom.com /~sbett/shavian-short.html (4959 words)

	Letter to JSSS - Response to Coleman
		Shavian carries over unchanged the S, I, and O. Slightly modified characters include the T, Z, and E. Forms similar to C, F, L, Q, and V are used but are not associated with their traditional sounds.
		The rules and features that account for the success of Shavian are ones that tend to divorce it from T.O. Taking his cue from statements made by Shaw and the rules of the Shaw alphabet competition, Read made no attempt to use history as a guide in assigning sound values to his symbol set.
		As shown in the Figure 1, Shavian is a monoline phonemic script that has the appearance of a foreign language.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/vangogh/555/Spell/Jsss-pmf.htm (5600 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Template:IPA notice Posthumously funded by and named for Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, the Shavian alphabet (also known as Shaw alphabet) was conceived as a way to provide simple, phonetic orthography for the English language to replace the difficulties of the conventional spelling.
		Shavian is a phonetic alphabet for the writing of English.
		Posthumously funded by and named after Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, the Shavian alphabet (also known as Shaw alphabet) was conceived as a way to provide a simple, phonetic orthography for the...
	shavian_alphabet.iqexpand.com (1213 words)

	Shavian alphabet: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Shavian is encoded in plane 1 of Unicode[click link for more facts about this subject], Exception Handler: No article summary found.
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/shavian_alphabet (2294 words)

	Shavian Alphabet - James Pitman's Introduction to Shaw's Alphabet
		You will notice from the comparisons that Shaw's alphabet is both more legible and one-third more economical in space than traditional printing, and this should lead to a great increase in reading speed.
		Shaw insisted that, unless his alphabet were to offer the substantial advantages he himself desired, there would be no reason for adding to the existing media of communication, which include: typewriting, shorthand, morse, semaphore, and braille, in addition to the Roman alphabet which is itself represented by three quite different sets of signs (as in
		In personal and intimate writing the forty-eight (40+8) characters of the Shaw alphabet may faithfully portray the pronunciation of the individual; but, as Shaw pointed out, too eccentric a dialect may hamper, and even destroy, effective communication.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /vangogh/555/Spell/pitmans-intro.html (934 words)

	Sounds of English and their Grafikl Representation
		The simplest code is an alphabetic one which allows the 12 pure vowels to be combined to form and additional 9 to 13 significant combinations (diphthongs).
		Shavian does not use RP as the base pronunciation.
		The Shavian alphabet has 40 phonograms supplemented by eight "compound" letters (see col. D) which are ligatures of the combined shapes.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/vangogh/555/Spell/saunds-eng2.html (2296 words)

	Shavian Alphabet - Index
		Each letter of the alphabet is based exclusively on a single sound of the present-day English language, allowing all words to be spelt exactly as they sound.
		Consequently, the Shavian alphabet and its spelling system are more efficient, more intuitive, and much easier to learn.
		The alphabet was designed as an entry in a competition initiated by George Bernard Shaw -- hence its name.
	www.saytheword.org.uk /shavian (156 words)

	Proposal to Add Shavian to Unicode (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The alphabet finally selected was designed by Kingsley Read and is variously known as Shavian, Shaw's alphabet, and the Proposed British Alphabet.
		The proposed location for the encoding of the Shaw alphabet is on Plane 1, off the BMP, and in the same block as the Deseret Alphabet.
		As with the Deseret Alphabet, the problem of collation is not addressed by the alphabet's designers.
	pipin.tmd.ns.ac.yu /unicode/www.unicode.org/pending/shavian/proposal/Shavian.html (531 words)

	History of the Fönetık lfubet
		I began tinkering with a phonetic spelling system for English at that time, so this alphabet is the result of about forty years of development, even though I only got around to putting it on the Internet in June of 2001.
		While it was inspired by the Shavian alphabet, it uses only conventional letters of the Roman alphabet as found on an English keyboard (with one diacritical mark), whereas the Shavian alphabet uses all new characters (see the Shavian Homepage and the Shavian Overview for information on the Shavian alphabet).
		The use of sj for the sh sound comes from Dutch, the use of c for the th in thin comes from Castilian Spanish, the use of umlauts to produce six new vowels comes from German, though the actual sounds are not those of German.
	www.geocities.com /mikenassau/history.htm (747 words)

	Scripts - Shavian
		Linguist and playwright George Bernard Shaw was a very vocal critic of the use of the Latin alphabet for English.
		In his will he left £500 prize money for a competition to be organised after his death, in an effort to create a new, more practical alphabet for the English language.
		The competition was held in 1958, and from 467 entries, the entry by Kingsley Read won.
	www.shoalhaven.net.au /~ksdesign/linguistix/script/script-shavian.htm (170 words)

	Shaw
		The expository logic of the Shaw alphabet is the separation and identification through position or complexity the phonological components of English: the principal unvoiced and voiced consonants are distinguished by rotational symmetry and situation as tall or deep letters; the vowels are marked lax or tense by the number of strokes used.
		Shavian represents orthography corrected and made an accurate guide to pronunciation by means of a new alphabet, adapted to the English language.
		The chief inadequacy of the Roman alphabet as used for English was that it was not efficient.
	www.foolswisdom.com /users/sbett/shaw.htm (8133 words)

	Shavian fonts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Quickscript is a cursive form of the Shavian alphabet.
		He proposes a revised version of the Shavian alphabet, by adding a set of auxiliary vowel markers.
		Simon Barne's archive of fonts for the Shavian alphabet.
	cgm.cs.mcgill.ca /~luc/shavian.html (425 words)

	Shavian ConScript Unicode Standard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The script encoded here, usually called the "Shaw Alphabet", is the result of that process; it represents a blending of four systems proposed by people trying to claim the money, and is attributed to Mr Kingsley Read.
		A proposal to encode Shavian in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 has been prepared by John Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com).
		In addition, the alphabet is shown a second time here, in an order suitable for use by those learning to write it.
	www.evertype.com /standards/csur/shavian.html (197 words)

	[shavian] Shavian Alphabet and Ghostworld
		An interest in providing people with a useful Mental tool, such as the Shavian alphabet can not be considered to be a sign of being Dysfunctional or eccentric.
		A simplified alphabet, that allows people illiterate in standard written English to read and write English with much less effort has many practical benefits.
		However, if you > are saying that her non-conformity is how the movie relates to Shavian, > I would be a little scared because I would not normally like to > consider myself to be as dysfunctional as Enid.
	www.mail-archive.com /shavian@yahoogroups.com/msg00033.html (604 words)

	Shavian Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Shaw (Shavian) Alphabet for English was created about 1961 as required by the will of the playwright George Bernard Shaw.
		Read later modified the Shavian alphabet to create Quickscript, The Shavian alphabet consists of three types of letters: tall, deep and short.
		Shavian Alphabet Alphabets for English, Phonemic/Phonetic Alphabetes, PBA or Proposed British Alphabet, Shaw Alphabet Shavian, Linear Shorthand, Shavian: The Shaw Alphabet Shapes wi
	www.cliftonsbesttips92.info /shavian-alphabet.html (380 words)

	shaw-keyboard
		Shavian took its present form because Read chose to use the rotated c shape for r.
		The Shavian alphabet has 40 phonograms supplemented by eight "compound" letters (see col. D) which are usually ligatures of the combined shapes.
		Keyboard Shavian is easy enough to write for those familiar with IPA but a little difficult to read.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /vangogh/555/Spell/shaw-keyboard.html (1736 words)

	Shavian alphabet : Shavian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There is no official encoding for Shavian text; a submission to the supplementary plane 1 of Unicode remains under consideration.
		Some fonts are available which include Shavian letters in the places of Roman letters, and/or in an agreed upon location in the Unicode private use area.
		Sis had moved into my room, to let one of the she came home and found me in it.
	www.explainthis.info /sh/shavian.html (840 words)

	Halfbakery: Better Phonetic Alphabet
		A certain [Mickey the Fish] proposed a new phonetic alphabet that was meant to be a joke.
		I base mine more on the Greek (alpha, beta, gamma) alphabet and much less on the NATO (alfa, bravo, charlie) alphabet, but with substantial variation to avoid similar-sounding letter names (mu, nu, zeta, eta, theta).
		Maybe that's actually good, but I can't find any scientific studies of the NATO alphabet to explain why the names were chosen ("oscar" replaced "oboe," and "mike" seems like it would get lost in a crackly radio transmission).
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Better_20Phonetic_20Alphabet (547 words)

	Augmented Alphabets
		he Shaw alphabet, developed by Kingsley Read, is probably the most famous non-roman alphabet for English.
		ITA and the broad romic notations by Daniel Jones and Henry Sweet merely supplemented the Latin character set with graphemes for sounds that were ambiguously represented in the traditional English writing system [TO].
		Shaw thought that any phonemic notation related to the Roman character set would be interpreted as bad spelling or ugly spelling by the general public.
	members.fortunecity.com /rapidrytr/Spell/augmented.html (1433 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Artificial script
		Some, like Cherokee, N'Ko, the Fraser Alphabet, and the Pollard script, were invented to allow certain spoken natural languages that did not already have writing systems to be written.
		Some, such as the Shavian alphabet, Alphabet 26, and the Deseret alphabet, were devised as English spelling reforms.
		Some neographies have been encoded in Unicode, in particular the Shavian alphabet and the Deseret alphabet.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Artificial_script (284 words)

	Shaw Alphabet Links
		When George Bernard Shaw died in 1950, his will provided for the development of a new alphabet for the English language, an alphabet of at least forty letters that could be used to write English without all the oddities of our traditional spelling.
		Kingsley Read rapidly moved beyond the Shaw Alphabet to develop Quickscript, an extensive modification of the Shaw Alphabet which languished in even greater obscurity than did the Shaw Alphabet itself.
		A Shaw Alphabet mailing list and bulletin board was set up by E-Group at the beginning of 1999.
	members.aol.com /RSRICHMOND/shavian.html (834 words)

	Shavian Alphabet - Communicating
		This means that you don't have to learn which keys on your computer's keyboard correspond to which letters of the Shavian alphabet.
		Ghoti Fingers is a program for Windows; the Virtual Shavian Typewriter is an HTML file containing Javascript, which currently only appears to work when viewed with Internet Explorer 4 or higher.
		Once you have composed your Shavian text, you can copy it to an email program, or print it out to send as a Shavian letter in order to worry your friends.
	www.saytheword.org.uk /shavian/communicating.html (292 words)

	Let's revolutionize English!!! [Archive] - SpaceBattles.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Shavian is a phonetic alphabet used to write English.
		Because the Roman alphabet is so badly suited to the different sounds of our spoken language, it often relies on tradition to dictate the way words should be written.
		An alphabet exists that does not use stupid spellings, uses word constructions that correspond precisely to the spoken sounds, and does indeed suit the language perfectly: this dream alphabet is Shavian.
	kier.3dfrontier.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-13593.html (4773 words)

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