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2. Quikscript - Wikipedia

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   Read organized a lengthy public testing phase of Shavian by some 500 users from around the world who spoke different dialects of English. Once he had analyzed the results of those tests, Read decided to revise Shavian to incorporate a number of improvements to make it both easier and faster to write. He called the revised alphabet "Quikscript".

3. Letter frequency - Wikipedia

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   The California Job Case was a compartmentalized box for printing in the 19th century, sizes corresponding to the commonality of letters. The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go ...

4. Shavian alphabet - Wikipedia

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   The Shaw Alphabet Edition of Androcles and the Lion, 1962.Paperback cover design by Germano Facetti. The Shavian alphabet (/ ˈ ʃ eɪ v i ə n / SHAY-vee-ən; [1] also known as the Shaw 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 spelling using the Latin ...

5. Spelling alphabet - Wikipedia

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   A spelling alphabet is also often called a phonetic alphabet, especially by amateur radio enthusiasts, [1] recreational sailors in the US and Australia, [2] and NATO military organizations, [3] despite this usage of the term producing a naming collision with the usage of the same phrase in phonetics to mean a notation used for phonetic ...

6. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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   The ampersand (&) has sometimes appeared at the end of the English alphabet, as in Byrhtferð's list of letters in 1011. [2] & was regarded as the 27th letter of the English alphabet, as taught to children in the US and elsewhere. [vague] An example may be seen in M. B. Moore's 1863 book The Dixie Primer, for the Little Folks. [3]

7. List of language reforms of English - Wikipedia

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   Creator(s) Alphabet A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language: 1806 Noah Webster: Basic: A Plea for Phonetic Spelling: 1848 Alexander John Ellis: Extended Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet: 1768 Benjamin Franklin: Extended Booke at Large for the Amendment of English Orthographie: 1580 William Bullokar: Extended Cut Spelling: 1992 ...