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  • Sound-writing

    Sound-writing

    In 1972, Kingsley Readโ€™s work on phonetic alphabets was shown to the world in the exhibition Sound-writing 1892-1972, at the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) in Reading, England. Read wrote an essay in accompanying catalogue, which I have reproduced here with the kind permission of the staff of MERL special collections.

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  • ยท๐‘–๐‘ฑ๐‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฒ ๐‘“๐‘ฑยญ๐‘๐‘ผยญ๐‘ฆ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฐ-๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐ๐‘›๐‘ผ

    ยท๐‘–๐‘ฑ๐‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฒ ๐‘“๐‘ฑยญ๐‘๐‘ผยญ๐‘ฆ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฐ-๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐ๐‘›๐‘ผ

    ๐‘ฒ ๐‘•๐‘‘๐‘ธยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฉ๐‘› ๐‘ฌ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฑยญ๐‘’๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘ž ๐‘ฐ-๐‘š๐‘ซ๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘ณ๐‘™๐‘’ยญ๐‘–๐‘ฉยญ๐‘ฏ๐‘จยญ๐‘ค๐‘ฆยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ ยท๐‘–๐‘ฑ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘ณ๐‘•๐‘‘ ๐‘ข๐‘ฆ๐‘ž ๐‘ž๐‘จ๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘ด๐‘ค ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฒ๐‘ฏ๐‘›: ๐‘’๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏยญ๐‘๐‘ป๐‘‘ยญ๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘ฐ-๐‘š๐‘ซ๐‘’๐‘•. ๐‘ค๐‘ฆยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฉ๐‘ค ๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘› ๐‘ฒ ๐‘ฏ๐‘ด ๐‘ข๐‘ง๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฒ ๐‘•๐‘‘๐‘ธยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฉ๐‘› ๐‘š๐‘ฆ๐‘คยญ๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘ž ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐ๐‘›๐‘ผ ๐‘“๐‘ณ๐‘™๐‘’ยญ๐‘–๐‘ฉยญ๐‘ฏ๐‘จยญ๐‘ค๐‘ฆยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ, ๐‘ž๐‘จ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘‘ ๐‘ข๐‘ซ๐‘› ๐‘•๐‘ต๐‘ฏ ๐‘š๐‘ฆยญ๐‘’๐‘ณ๐‘ฅ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฒ ๐‘“๐‘ฑยญ๐‘๐‘ผยญ๐‘ฆ๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘ธ๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ž ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฒ๐‘ผ ๐‘จ๐‘. ๐‘ฒ ๐‘ฃ๐‘จ๐‘ ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฌ ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฒยญ๐‘ผ๐‘ค๐‘ฆ ๐‘•๐‘‘๐‘ช๐‘๐‘‘ ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐยญ๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ ยท๐‘จ๐‘๐‘ฉ๐‘ค-๐‘š๐‘ซ๐‘’๐‘•, ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฒ ๐‘๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐยญ๐‘๐‘พ๐‘• ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐ๐‘›๐‘ผ ๐‘ ๐‘—๐‘ถ๐‘•. ๐‘ข๐‘ฒ? ๐‘š๐‘ฆยญ๐‘’๐‘ช๐‘Ÿ,…

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  • Shavian typing speed

    Shavian typing speed

    If you’ve played Shaw type, you may have noticed one frustrating aspect of the gameplay: your score is for a great part determined by luck. If you draw short words, you have fewer characters to type, and so your time is shorter, and you end up higher on the leader-board. This had been bugging me…

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  • ๐‘–๐‘ฉยญ๐‘๐‘ง๐‘ฏยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘ดยญ๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘™

    ๐‘–๐‘ฉยญ๐‘๐‘ง๐‘ฏยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘ดยญ๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘™

    ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฒ ๐‘งยญ๐‘“๐‘ผ๐‘‘๐‘• ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ ๐‘›๐‘ฆยญ๐‘๐‘งยญ๐‘ค๐‘ฉยญ๐‘๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘–๐‘ฑยญ๐‘๐‘พ๐‘ฏ ๐‘‘๐‘ต๐‘ค๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฃ๐‘จ๐‘ ๐‘ฏ๐‘ช๐‘‘ ๐‘•๐‘‘๐‘ท๐‘ค๐‘›โ€”๐‘‘ ๐‘ž ๐‘’๐‘ช๐‘ฏยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฎ๐‘ผ๐‘ฆ: ๐‘ ๐‘ค๐‘ฑ๐‘‘, ๐‘ฒ ๐‘ฃ๐‘จ๐‘ ๐‘‘๐‘ฑยญ๐‘’๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ ๐‘‘ ๐‘ข๐‘ป๐‘’ยญ๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ณ๐‘คยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฆยญ๐‘๐‘ฉ๐‘ค ๐‘“๐‘ฎ๐‘ณ๐‘ฏยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฝ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘’๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏยญ๐‘’๐‘ณยญ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ๐‘‘ยญ๐‘ค๐‘ฆ: ยท๐‘–๐‘ฑ๐‘ ๐‘ง๐‘ฏ๐‘ก๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘ฎ๐‘ต๐‘๐‘ฅ๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ๐‘‘๐‘•, ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฟ ยท๐‘–๐‘ท-๐‘‘๐‘ฒ๐‘ ๐‘“๐‘ฐ๐‘—๐‘ผ๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘ž ๐‘“๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘‘๐‘ณ๐‘—๐‘ฉ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฒ ยท๐‘ฒ๐‘ด๐‘ง๐‘• ๐‘’๐‘ฐ๐‘š๐‘น๐‘› ๐‘จ๐‘, ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ณ๐‘—, ๐‘ฅ๐‘ณ๐‘— ๐‘ฅ๐‘น.

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  • The Pitman Collection

    The Pitman Collection

    In early April, I visited the University of Bath to look at section D of the Pitman collection. I took thousands of pictures, and will be semi-regularly adding posts about what I found there.

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  • Announcing Shave 1.1

    Announcing Shave 1.1

    Shave 1.1 is out! A new version of the bidirectional Shave transliterator, with an all new E-Book reader, a Shavian web proxy, collaborative editing, support for Custom Fonts, and so much more.

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  • On the Shave Architecture

    On the Shave Architecture

    Accompanying yesterdayโ€™s post announcing Shave I thought it might be interesting for some of you to learn a bit more about what is going on under the hood in the tool. It will come as no surprise that it started out life as a clone of Dave Coffinโ€™s python transliterator. That tool was the best…

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  • On Shave

    On Shave

    Iโ€™ve been teasing you all with talk about my own transliteration tool for quite some time. I hadnโ€™t released it, as there were some features I really wanted to have nailed before letting you guys get your hands on it. The wait is over. I just released a web UI for my shave transliterator so…

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  • English Needs the Shavian Alphabet

    English Needs the Shavian Alphabet

    Everyone who tells the story of the Shavian Alphabet retells the story of the Shaw Will and alphabet competition. It’s a lot like filming a new Batman movie: the theater, a boy and his parents, a dark alleyway, a gun, and pearls raining to the ground. They’re both dramatic. What the Shaw story doesn’t ever…

    Brandon

  • Shcrabble

    Shcrabble

    I should say upfront that I neither enjoy nor am particularly good at Scrabble โ€” and I suspect those two facts are not entirely unrelated. None of which stopped me from spending yesterday building Shcrabble, an online, real-time multiplayer Scrabble game played entirely in the Shavian alphabet, in a single sitting with Claude Code. It’s…

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