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If you are one of the large number of English-speakers who have been secretly tinkering with ways to reform English spelling for as long as you can remember, you may be relieved to learn that other people have been doing much the same thing.
Here are some examples of English text in reformed systems. The systems themselves are more or less plausible, but they do give you some idea of the range of proposals.
Truespel This
text was transcribed from tradtional orthography automatically, using the Perl
program. See the Links page for more information.
Fonetic This text
was transcribed from tradtional orthography automatically, using the Perl
program. See the Links page for more information.
Cut Spelng This
text was transcribed from tradtional orthography automatically, using the Perl
program. See the Links page for more information.
New Spelling In
some ways, this is the "right" solution. The Simplified Spelling
Society promoted it for several decades after the late 1940s, and not always
without hope of official recognition. On the whole, though, it was probably too
radical.
Altscript This is
my own system. Read it and weep.
Spelriet
Paul Cunningham's reform proposal.
A rashnalized
spelling sistim for dhe Ingglish langwij
Simplified
Spelling -or- Phonetics for Fanatics
Reformed English A new alphabet,
downloadable font.
NuSpel A new alphabet.
Snapscript A
more mature version of Altscript, by yours truly.
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