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The Shavian alphabet (also known as Shaw alphabet) is an alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonetic orthography for the English language to replace the difficulties of the conventional spelling. It was posthumously funded by and named after Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Shaw set two main criteria for the new alphabet: it should be (1) as phonetic as possible (that is, letters should have a 1:1 correspondence to sounds); and (2) be distinct from the Latin alphabet to avoid...
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