Shavian alphabet
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The Shavian alphabet is a constructed alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonemic orthography for the English language to replace the inefficiencies and difficulties of conventional spelli
The Shaw Alphabet Edition of Androcles and the Lion, 1962. Paperback cover design by Germano Facetti
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,
Shavian alphabet
…of conventional spelling using the Latin alphabet. It was posthumously funded by and named after the playwright George Bernard Shaw and designed by Ronald Kingsley Read, a professional signwriter and letterer. Shaw set three main criteria for the new alphabet…
Read's three inventions: the Shaw alphabet, Quikscript, and Readspel, printed by Read's daughter Mavis Mottram