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There was some English guy that tried to create an English alphabet where each letter would correspond to exactly one sound, so around 44 letters in total. Kind
by darebak 5y ago
There was some English guy that tried to create an English alphabet where each letter would correspond to exactly one sound, so around 44 letters in total. Kinda like Serbian Cyrillic.
I can't remember his name or the name of his project though.
- pessimizer 5y agoThat's doomed from the start. There's no way English speakers could deal with a written language with 19 different vowels.
- thechao 5y agoAnd which dialect!?
- blaxis 5y agoShavian? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet
- darebak 5y agoYeah, that's the one.
- ralferoo 5y agoNot heard of this particular script before (although I see the answer was already posted), but it seems a bit redundant to have created an incompatible system when shorthand was in widespread use in the UK at the time, albeit mostly only used in a secretarial context.