Word: vowels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps the best known arrangement is the Dunces' mild satire on the Harvard Glee Club's stock in trade, trade, "Marching to Pretoria." The Dunces' "Petoria is shouted out with trilled R's in the best operatic tradition, and an abhorrence of vowel sounds. For authenticity, it goes the Glee Club one better with a verse in the original Afrikanese text...
...Nearest rival: the Isaac Pitman system. The Gregg system, based on the scoops and curves of ordinary longhand, flows smoothly along the line; the Pitman system uses straight lines, circles, and detached vowel symbols...
...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...