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
Quikscript
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Quikscript is a constructed alphabet intended to replace traditional English orthography. It is a revised version of the Shavian alphabet, designed to be written more quickly by hand than its predeces
Shavian alphabet
…was published in Shaw-only form by the website Shavian.info. Some years after the initial publication of the Shaw alphabet, Read expanded it to create Quikscript, also known as the Read Alphabet or the Second Shaw Alphabet. Quikscript is intended to be more useful for handwriting, and to that end is more cursive…
The Shaw Alphabet, Quikscript, and Readspel, printed by Read's daughter Mavis Mottram