The History of English: An Introduction 2nd Edition by Stephan Gramley

Exercise 14

There have been numerous attempts at reforming English spelling. Look at some of the suggestions by making a comparison of Thomas Spence's Grand Repository, Shaw's "Proposed British Alphabet," and Issac Pitman's Phonetic Alphabet. How do their approaches differ from conventional spelling and from each other in regard to the alphabetic characters used and assignment of sounds to letters (or vice versa)? Good sources are Abercrombie 1965 and MacCarthy 1972.