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English using Shavian & Quickscript

The "Shavian Proposed British Alphabet" was created in the 1950s by Kingsley Reed as part of a £500 competition financed by a trust set up under George Bernard Shaw's will.

Mr. Reed went on to revise his alphabet into a more cursive form called "Quickscript" or "Quikscript".


English using Shavian
The spelling used below matches the 1962 edition of Shaw's Androcles and the Lion with parallel text in Shavian.
[English using the Shavian Alphabet]
English using Quickscript
The spelling used below is purely phonetic.
[English using the Quickscript Alphabet]

Writing system information for Shavian at Wikipedia

Writing system information for Quickscript at Omniglot


The four essential
travel phrases in English:

1) Where is my room?
2) Where is the beach?
3) Where is the bar?
4) Don't touch me there!
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