How Kingsley Read built a writing system to match George Bernard Shaw’s alphabetic utopia —

The background of the alphabetic utopia theorised by G.B. Shaw, between spelling and phonetic reform of the English language — By the time that his vision of a new alphabet for the English language had been realised and printed, George Bernard Shaw was dead. A Nobel-winning playwright, critic and polemicist, he spent half a century exasperated by how English was written and campaigning for its reform. It would be twelve…