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English Spelling Reform(영문)에 대한 자료입니다.
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1.What Is Spelling Reform?
2.Successful case of Reforms
3.Reforms proposed
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Collective term for various campaigns and efforts to change the spelling of the English language to make it simpler and more rationally consistent.
De recta et emendata linguæ angliæ scriptione in 1568 by Sir Thomas Smith, Secretary of State to Edward VI and Elizabeth I
An Orthographie in 1569 by John Hart, Chester Herald
Booke at Large for the Amendment of English Orthographie in 1580 by William Bullokar
Logonomia Anglica in 1621 by Dr. Alexander Gill, headmaster of St Paul’s School in London
English Grammar in 1634 by Charles Butler, vicar of Wootton St Lawrence
These proposals generally did not attract serious consideration
because they were of too radical a nature or were based on
an insufficient understanding of the phonology of English.
By the 1870s, the philological societies of Great Britain and America chose to consider the matter.
"International Convention for the Amendment of English Orthography“ in 1876
the English Spelling Reform Association
American Spelling Reform Association.
the American Philological Society adopted a list of eleven reformed spellings for immediate use.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856~1950)
Irish dramatist and critic
a totally radical solution – developing brand new symbols
In 1961, a new English alphabet with forty-three letters was introduced in British schools.
However it was introduced for the purpose of improvement of reading, not spelling reform.