In this episode of Reform Review (Episode VI), Casual Conlanger presents and reviews the Spelling Reform step 1 and Stage 1.

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Notation: Following standard notation, phonemic pronunciation is written in /slashes/, phonetic/dialectal pronunciation in [brackets] and graphemes (ie letters in spelling) in ⟨angle brackets⟩. The 'greater than' symbol (which I can't use in the description and will write as '→' in the example) stands for 'becomes,' and '/' means 'in the environment where'. V is vowel and C is consonant, with _ showing in which specific environment the grapheme is placed. I've adapted this notation to concisely show orthographic changes in each reform, although it is most often used when describing a given language's phonology, morphology and phonotactics.
Example: /f/ → ⟨f⟩ / ⟨ph⟩ would be transliterated as 'the phoneme /f/ becomes the grapheme ⟨f⟩ in the environment where it was written ⟨ph⟩.'

Links:
[1] Spelling Reform: A New Approach (1969): archive.org/details/spelling-reform-a-new-approach
[2] SR1 (and Stage 1) Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR1
[3] Harry Lindgren Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Lindgren
[4] Harry Lindgren (Australian Dictionary of Biography): adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lindgren-harry-23776
[5] Australian Trade Union Archives: www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE0253b.htm
[6] Irish English Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English
[7] Simplified Spelling Society Newsletter Winter 1982: www.spellingsociety.org/uploaded_newsletters/news1-newsletter.pdf
[8] Simplified Spelling Society “Tough Though Thought” leaflet (1986): www.spellingsociety.org/uploaded_leaflets/1986tough-leaflet.pdf
[9] Simplified Spelling Society Newsletter Spring 1986: www.spellingsociety.org/uploaded_journals/j2-journal.pdf
[10] Simplified Spelling Society Newsletter 1988: www.spellingsociety.org/uploaded_journals/j8-journal.pdf
[11] Reading education: a guide to texts and resources (Edwards & Heggart, 1978): [ Ссылка ]

English subtitles by Casual Conlanger

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