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Who proposed shavian alphabet?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw called for a regular, phonetic alphabet to be designed in a competition, awarding the selected alphabet's creator with money from Shaw's estate. The winner of this competition was Ronald Kingsley Read.

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