Shavian, A Constructed Alphabet Developed as An Alternative for the English Alphabet

Alphabet history: Beyond the Ticker

Belgrade Walking Tours on Instagram: "George Bernard Shaw believed that the English writing system was highly inefficient and inconsistent — the same sounds could be written in many different ways, and many letters were unnecessary. Shaw admired the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet for its simplicity and logic. In Serbian, each letter represents exactly one sound, and each sound corresponds to one letter — a principle known as “write as you speak, and read as it’s written.” Shaw wanted English to adopt