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Ronald Kingsley Read (19 February 1887February 1975) was one of four contestants chosen to share the prize money for the design of the Shavian alphabet, a completely new alphabet intended for writing English. He was later appointed sole responsible designer of the alphabet.
In 1966, after extensive testing of Shavian with English speakers from around the world, Read introduced Quikscript, a revised form of his Shavian alphabet. Quikscript, also known as the "Read alphabet", has more
Quikscript io group
Shavian Yahoo Group
1887 births 1975 deaths Creators of writing systems {{writingsystem-stub
Ronald Kingsley Read (19 February 1887February 1975) was one of four contestants chosen to share the prize money for the design of the Shavian alphabet, a completely new alphabet intended for writing English. He was later appointed sole responsible designer of the alphabet.
In 1966, after extensive testing of Shavian with English speakers from around the world, Read introduced Quikscript, a revised form of his Shavian alphabet. Quikscript, also known as the "Read alphabet", has more ligatures
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than Shavian, which makes it easier to write by hand. Its appearance is more cursive than Shavian.
A few days before his death, he completed a new alphabet called ''Soundspell'' (now ''Readspel''), based, probably for increased chances of popular acceptance, on the Latin script.
In the early 1960s Read also produced the quarterly journal ''Shaw-script'', which was printed using the Shavian alphabet.
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*Quikscript io group
Shavian Yahoo Group
1887 births 1975 deaths Creators of writing systems {{writingsystem-stub