Word: alfabet
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Most people are probably unaware that Benjamin Franklin once wrote a letter beginning with the cryptic phrase: “Diir Sir, yi hav transkryb’d iur alfabet.” But this very letter from this founding father, innovator and advocate of spelling reform is on display this month in the Houghton Library’s “Alphabetics,” an exhibition of book arts involving unusual and creative thought about letters...
...inifhial teeching alfabet too bee, or not too bee: that is the kwestion...
...publik interest in a fonetik alfabet kan be expekted to have reatshed a point where more radikal prosedures are indikated. We would urge at that time the elimination of al double leters whitsh have always ben a nuisanse and desided deterent to akurate speling...
...Though Shaw's proposed "alfabet" never got beyond the discussion stage, he had set down some ideas on the subject. He would 1) keep the present system except for x, c and q; 2) eliminate the neutral second vowels found in such words as colour, labour and honour; 3) substitute "unambiguous symbols" for the consonant combinations sh, zh, wh, th, dh, ng; also for the vowel-consonant combinations ah, aw, at, et, it, of, ut, oot, yoot...
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