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
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
