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Cut Spelling is a system of English-language spelling reform which reduces redundant letters and makes substitutions to improve correspondence with the spoken word. It was designed by Christopher Upward and was for a time being popularized by the Simplified Spelling Society. The resulting words are 8–15% shorter than standard spellings.
While the 1993 spelling norm is compulsory in Romanian education and official publications, and gradually most other publications came to use it, there are still individuals, publications and publishing houses preferring the previous spelling norm or a mixed hybrid system of their own; among them are the weekly cultural magazine Dilema Veche ...
Christopher Upward (14 November 1938 – 4 August 2002) was an English orthographer, notable for designing the system of cut spelling, a system of English-language spelling reform which reduces redundant letters and makes substitutions to improve correspondence with the spoken word, as well as for the book The History of English Spelling, which was unfinished at the time of his death, but was ...
Romani ite domum on a reconstruction of a Roman settlement in Britain, in the Hull and East Riding Museum " Romani ite domum" (English: Romans go home) is the corrected Latin phrase for the graffito " Romanes eunt domus" from a scene in the film Monty Python's Life of Brian.
Spelling reforms have been proposed for various languages over the years; these have ranged from modest attempts to eliminate particular irregularities (such as SR1 or Initial Teaching Alphabet) through more far-reaching reforms (such as Cut Spelling) to attempts to introduce a full phonemic orthography, like the Shavian alphabet or its revised ...
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 Christopher Upward: Basic Deseret alphabet: 1847–1854 Board of regents of the University of ...
The Romanian Cyrillic alphabet is the Cyrillic alphabet that was used to write the Romanian language & Church Slavonic until the 1860s, when it was officially replaced by a Latin-based Romanian alphabet.
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