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Simplified Spelling Society This is the only international conspiracy of which I am a dues paying member. The Society has been in business since 1908. Its past presidents have included Daniel Jones, co founder of the International Phonetic Association and co-author of its IPA notation, and Sir James Pitman, developer of the ITA - the initial teaching alphabet.  Based in Britain, it has an international membership of teachers, linguists and other people who are tired of spending half their working lives looking for spelling errors. The society sponsors an e-mail discussion group for people interested on improving English orthography, as well as a quarterly newsletter and a serious scholarly journal edited by Chris Upward.

The American Literacy Council Founded at the turn of the century as the Simplified Spelling Board, ALC is the American equivalent of the Simplified Spelling Society. It supports both spelling reform and better teaching of traditional orthography. Locted in New York, the Council offers a particularly useful spell-checker program. This program also converts traditional orthography into a reformed system, ALC fonetic, for learners who want to see how words should be pronounced.

Transcriptions of headings are in Chekt Speling, one of a dozen popular consistently alphabetic notations for English


 
Web pages related to Reform Spelling
 and the development of a consistent orthography  - TO
Web peija'z rileit'd tu Riform Speling 
and x divelopment ov a' consist'nt orthografi - CKS
Web payjes relayted tw Reform Speling 
and the development ov a consistent orthografy - OGD

BTRSPL A free, downloadable computer program that transforms traditional orthography into a reformed system. (See Perlscript for an online version of BTRSPL (better-spelling converter))

English Spelling Reform This site by David Barnstable has persuasive arguments for the reform English spelling and a history of the attempts to do so over the last 150 years. It also has has material supporting the thesis that the high levels of dyslexia in English-speaking countries are partly a product of the chaotic spelling system.

Orthography Index One of Steve Bett's sites. There are links here to everything having to do with spelling, plus some some superior graphics.

Online Spelling Reform Forum Steve Bett's other site.

Henry Sweet's Principles of Spelling Reform These are the thoughts of a 19th century reform advocate. Back then, if you believe this fellow, everybody thought English spelling would be reformed soon.

Perl Script The on-line better spelling converter. This is the program used to generate three of the examples given on the Schemes page. You can insert whole books of text into it online and get a reformed version in any of three proposed systems.

Restored Spelling: John Reilly's positional spelling scheme that closely approximates Middle English spelling conventions.  Reilly called his notation, previewed below, Old Grand Dad (OGD)
For more on the Restored English Project, visit  http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/sch.htm

Cut Spelling often simply reprodueses Midl Inglish forms. Eaven wen respelings ar novl, the sceems that produess them ar jeneraly just reaserting prinsipels that wer part ov Inglish ortthografy frum its inseption, but that becaim obsciured in erly modern tyms.

We ar engaijed neether in simplifying Inglish speling, nor in reforming it, but it reterning tu its traditionl structiur. Wyl thiss dus not meen simply reproduesing spelings today that existed in former tyms, it dus meen that we ar in a very reel senss restoring the riten langwej tu its tru form.


Languages other than English - Reform related links
Langwija'z u'xr xan Ingli5 - riform rileit'd links
Langwijes uther than Inglish - reform relayted links

Institut für deutsche Sprache German, like most European languages, undergoes systematic spelling reforms from time to time. Here is a society involved in the latest, rather controversial reform.

Swiss German Bund fuer vereinfachte rechtschreibung Federation for Simplified Spelling

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Comments

 Return to the top of the page.  This page is an expanded and edited version of a similar page developed by John Reilly.  Many of the links are back to Reilly's website which contains many of his other interests in addition to spelling reform.

Source page:   http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/iln.htm

John J. Reilly had riten
The tolleraition of enny plauzibl competitor wil kil TO.

Tu wich Allan replyd:
>Oh, yeah??
>We hav had 'thru' for how long, 100 years?
>Its tolrated.
>Its mor than a plausbl competitr for 'through'.
>It hasnt kild the latr!

Tu wich JJR ses in tern:
"Thru" is not a reform, it's a singl respeling. It dus notthing tu address
the *sistem* TO, wich has suxeeded in keeping "thru" marjinelyzd. If enny
allternativ sistem wer as familier as "thru," it woodd hav kild TO long
aggo.

Allan ferther sed:
>Wat we think may be needd for rediness
>may not be taken up by the columnists, copy-editrs,
>talk-sho hosts, trendy jurnls, peple in sheltrd cornrs U speak of.

Then we must maik our sistem (perhaps an expanded verzion ov Ron's LIST)
conspicueus on the Internet. Our FAQs must be the plaises tu wich laizy
reporters tern wen thay need to fynd out wot "ortthografy" meens in tym for
the morning dedlyn.