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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 .
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Romanian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Romanian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The Romanian Wikipedia (abr. ro.wiki or ro.wp; [1] Romanian: Wikipedia în limba română) is the Romanian language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Started on 12 July 2003, as of 17 February 2025 this edition has 510,743 articles and is the 30th largest Wikipedia edition. [2]
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 ...
SoundSpel (previously Classic New Spelling, New Spelling, World English Spelling) 1910–1986 Various Basic SR1 (Spelling Reform step 1) 1969 Harry Lindgren: Basic The Global Alphabet 1944 Robert L. Owen: Replaced The Opening of the Unreasonable Writing of Our Inglish Toung: 1551 John Hart: Extended Traditional Spelling Revised (TSR) 2021 ...
1. 'ь' is used to indicate a word ends in a consonant. This was eventually dropped to reduce printing cost. 2. 'й' is the equivalent of unstressed и at the end of a word. [citation needed] 3. Є, Ѻ, Оу, Ꙗ are the initial variants of Е, О, Ꙋ, Ѧ respectively. 4. Ї is the equivalent of И before a vowel. It is also used in Greek ...
A minor spelling reform in 1964 brought back the letter â, but only in the spelling of român "Romanian" and all its derivatives, including the name of the country. As such, the Socialist Republic proclaimed in 1965 is associated with the spelling Republica Socialistă România.
The history of the Romanian language started in the Roman provinces north of the Jireček Line in Classical antiquity but there are 3 main hypotheses about its exact territory: the autochthony thesis (it developed in left-Danube Dacia only), the discontinuation thesis (it developed in right-Danube provinces only), and the "as-well-as" thesis that supports the language development on both sides ...