Benjamin Franklin's Strategy for a Phonetic American Alphabet
The alphabet can be found here.
Benjamin Franklin, A Scheme for a new Alphabet and a Reformed Mode of Spelling (April, 1768)
Notes
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.References
- A Scheme for a new Alphabet and a Reformed Mode of Spelling Magazine Article
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