Ronald Kingsley Read
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Ronald Kingsley Read was one of four contestants chosen in 1959 to share the prize money for the design of the Shavian alphabet, a completely new alphabet intended for the writing of English. In 1960,
Read's three inventions: the Shaw alphabet, Quikscript, and Readspel, printed by Read's daughter Mavis Mottram
SoundSpel
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SoundSpel is a regular and mostly phonemic English-language spelling reform proposal which uses the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Though SoundSpel was originally based on American English, it can represen
Ronald Kingsley Read
…appearance is more cursive than Shavian. A few days before his death, he completed a new alphabet called Soundspell (now Readspel; not to be confused with Soundspel), based, probably for increased chances of popular acceptance, on the Latin script. Kingsley Read's Scripts at the Wayback Machine (archived June 21…
Some common English words containing traditional spelling's infamous tetragraph ⟨ough⟩, written in SoundSpel
Spelling reform advocate and SoundSpel developer Edward "Ed" Rondthaler in 2004