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English Spelling Reform Link Page - A very complete listing of the history of spelling reform, the arguments for spelling reform, many options that have been proposed. It does not include the Unifon option of adding characters and having 40 characters for 40 sounds. http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vangogh/555/Spell/whowhere-index.html  

THE UNIFON ALPHABET READER, Original Stories by Neil Stewart 
http://www.dlstewart.com/neil

Tyler Dykstra 

John Reilly on Spelling Reform  http://www.johnreilly.info/alt1.htm

Spelling: Blame it on Technology - Voices from the Middle, 2002

English Spelling Reform - History, arguments for reform etc.

Spelling and spelling reform  http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/spelling.htm 

Criteria for practical improvement of English spelling   http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/sration.htm 

Does English have an alphabet? A Personal View by Steve Bett Introducing Nu Folik Notation  http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vangogh/555/Spell/pv7-1.html  

Reasons to Reform English   http://www.angelfire.com/wa/derludwig/reasons.html 

SPELLING REFORM
And The Real Reason It's Impossible 
http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ortho.html 
Justin B Rye, mail to ...   

Wyrdplay - English spelling reform, and a collection of miscellaneous English-language-related links ... http://www.wyrdplay.org

"Toward an Introductory Web Course in Grapho-Phonology and Applied Linguistics" Draft - A project of the Saundspel egroup http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/vangogh/555/Spell/phonology-course.html

ACCESS (AKSES) TO READING AND WRITING FOR ALL AMERICANS - Facts for Americans who want to help ALL children learn to read and write English as well as they speak it. This is another plausible method. Though it does not have new characters (like UNIFON) the authors intent is the same as those who created this UNIFON web site. http://www.akses.org

American Literacy Council - Spelling Lists, Spelling Chaos, Free Software, "What Can you do to improve the English Language" - A very specific concrete plan. The advantage of a system that has 40 characters and 40 sounds are not included in this plan as of yet however. 
http://www.americanliteracy.com

Spelling Reform: History's Most Secret Conspiracy - by John J. Reilly http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/alt1.htm

The Simplified Spelling Society http://www.spellingsociety.org/
A listing of spelling reform links  -  

The Trouble With Spelling
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vangogh/555/Spell/trublspl1.html

Space Age Literacy Unlimited - Wendell H. Hall http://www.nuspel.org/index.html

Ugh-free Spelling by Tom Beton

The Problem of English Spelling - by Duncan MacGregor  http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa735/eng_sp.html 

Creating bilingual fonts - Unifon http://www.savetz.com/ku/ku/bennett_creating_bilingual_fonts_unifon_july_august_1989.html

George Bernard Shaw in 1950 left in his will a provision for a new alphabet that would contain 40 characters. The Shavian alphabet was created. 
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vangogh/555/Spell/shaw-pref.html  and http://www.demeyere.com/Shavian/info.html

A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling by Mark Twain http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vangogh/555/Spell/twain-simpspl.html  

 

 
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