A similar idea from the 19th century: Lucy Aikin (writing as "Mary Godolphin") wrote some children's novels using words of one syllable (except for proper names

A similar idea from the 19th century: Lucy Aikin (writing as "Mary Godolphin") wrote some children's novels using words of one syllable (except for proper names). There are only so many English words of just one syllable (Wiktionary lists 8626 words [1]), but you can get very far! The writing has a rather robotic cadence, though. You can read some of her books online, such as "Robinson Crusoe In Words Of One Syllable" [2]. [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_1-syllable_words https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_1-syllable_w... [2] https://manybooks.net/book/189660/read#epubcfi(/6/2[item4]!/4/42[pgepubid00003]/1:0 https://manybooks.net/book/189660/read#epubcfi(/6/2[item4]!/...)