Bernard Shaw famously supported spelling reform, first merely reworking the standard orthography and later, in the form of the phonetic alphabets Shavian and la

Bernard Shaw famously supported spelling reform, first merely reworking the standard orthography and later, in the form of the phonetic alphabets Shavian and later Quikscript by Kingsley Read. They're both obviously more consistent than Latin alphabet writing, and also often shorter so they might count as shorthand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quikscript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quikscript