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) training with Henry Cecil at his Warren Place stable in Newmarket, Suffolk and was ridden in all but one of his races by Steve Cauthen. Shavian made his racecourse debut in a seven furlong maiden race at Doncaster Racecourse on 13 September. He started 11/10 favourite against eight opponents, but after leading for most of the way he was overtaken in the closing stages and was beaten a neck by the 25/1 outsider Message Pad. Two weeks later he started odds-on favourite for the Mornington Stakes over the same distance at Ascot. Cauthen sent him into the lead from the