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Directories
Spelling Reform Links Compiled by John J. Reilly, The Spelling Reform Ring
Fanetiks
Correct Pronunciation: A Prescriptive Dictionary [, Fanetiks: Phonetic English Spelling, Phoneticizing Names (Fanetiks)
Organizations
American Literacy Council, Simplified Spelling Society
Problems in Traditional Spelling
A Study of Some of the Most Commonly Misspelled Wo, Dan Quayle's Problems with Spelling, DidYouMean?, Online Technical Writing: Spelling Problems, The Problem of English Spelling, The River - Goerge - the Great Mis-spellings Page, Variant Spellings in American English Dictionaries
Shavian
Bob Richmond's Shaw Alphabet Links, DeMeyere's Shavian Typeface, Shavian ConScript Unicode Standard, Shavian Mailing List at Yahoo! Groups, shavian.org, Teach yourself the Revised Shaw Alphabet
Spel Riet
Sound Spelling - A Speller-Friendly English
Web Rings
The Spelling Reform Ring
A Reformed Orthography for the English Language
A proposed spelling reform which facilitates the reading and writing of English, and reassigns Teutonic spelling conventions that are more appropriate than the current orthography.
Brasseur Universal Code
Details on an alternative to the standard alphabet based on a system of symbolic logic characters.
BTRSPL
Free software that converts documents bidirectionally between standard english and various alternative spelling systems.
English Simplified Spelling
English spelling proposals by Dr. C. George Boeree with introduction, vowels, consonants, samples from Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" and Hamlet's Solioquy.
Introduction to Newspelling
A simplified spelling system for English.
Mapping of Alternate Notations Onto IPA Phonemes
Mappings between IPA phonemes and various proposed language reform schemes including Broad Romic, Chekt Speling, SaundSpel, New Spelling (Nue Speling), ALC Fonetik, TrueTruespel, OGD-Positional, ANJeL tuN and Unigraf.
Phonetic Alphabet for English
Details of a 32 letter alphabet which gives a one-to-one correlation between sound and spelling.
Phonetic English
Proposal to unite English spoken word with the written with sample translations of various materials into this system.
Spelling Reform
Educational tools to help students in their difficulties in "traditional" English writing. Bookshop, software, reviews, orders from Mantex.co.uk . Site also reproduces Mark Twain's short article "A plan for improving English language spelling".
Spelling Reform: Site by John J. Reilly
General website on spelling reform including John Reilly's own reform scheme Altscript. Sections on historic figures supporting spelling reform. Speling reform schemes. Also list of societies, persons and resources promoting spelling reform. Links.
Unifon--one sound per symbol--phonetic transcripti
The Unifon site contains several Phonemic transcription systems for English. A 40-phonogram ascii-bet changeable to a more pleasing extended alphabet with the installation of the Unifon font. A good, simple place to start a study of phonemic writing systems.