Benjamin Franklin's Strategy for a Phonetic American Alphabet
Franklin was interested in moving American English to a phonetic spelling system, introducing eight new letters to the alphabet to account for common sounds not currently covered with single letters and removing other letters considered redundant.
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The alphabet can be found here.
Folksonomies: phonetics
A Scheme for a new Alphabet and a Reformed Mode of SpellingPeriodicals>Magazine Article: Franklin, Benjamin (April, 1768), A Scheme for a new Alphabet and a Reformed Mode of Spelling, Gentleman's Magazine, Retrieved on -0001-11-30
Folksonomies: phonetics Schemas
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Arguments for English Spelling Reform
This schema is a collection of arguments about how proper grammar, with its illogical and inconsistently applied rules, is used by academics and intellectuals to create a privileged class of people who's ideas deserve considering because they have successfully learned the irrational system. 16 
