Shavian alphabet the Shavian glyphs. Shavian alphabet The Shavian alphabet (also known as the Shaw alphabet) is an alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonetic orthography for the English language to replace the difficulties of conventional spelling. It was posthumously funded by and named after Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Shaw set three main criteria for the new alphabet: it should be (1) at least 40 letters; (2) as "phonetic" as possible (that is, letters should have a to phonemes); and (3) distinct from the Latin alphabet to avoid the impression that the new spellings were simply "misspellings". The Shavian
Shavian (horse) a sire of winners. Shavian was a bay horse bred in England by his owner. He was sired by de Walden's stallion Kris, an outstanding miler who won fourteen of his sixteen races between 1978 and 1980. Kris's other progeny included Oh So Sharp, Unite, Balisada and Shamshir. Shavian's dam Mixed Applause showed high-class form as a two-year-old in 1978 when she won the Sweet Solera Stakes. She went on to produce the Ascot Gold Cup winner Paean and, as a descendant of the broodmare My Game, was closely related to Marwell, Marling and Unite. The colt was sent into