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Benjamin Franklin's Phonetic Alphabet

Posted May 15, 2013 7:58 AM

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Benjamin Franklin, along with advocating for the turkey at the US national symbol, writing an almanac, experimenting with electricity, inventing bifocals, and helping to found the United States, also proposed a new, simplified alphabet. Franklin came up with it in 1768, and Noah Webster published it in 1789. He dropped some letters, came up with new ones for common phonemes, and assigned only one sound for each letter.  

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05/15/2013 8:54 AM

It's good that this never took hold. We'd never have had a World Wide Web; no www.anything.

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05/16/2013 7:28 AM

Sure we would, it wouls look like this : http://uu uu uu.

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05/16/2013 8:03 AM

At least the punctuation task has been completed. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bpIbdZhrzA
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05/16/2013 8:23 AM

Hmmm...kind of reminds me of the attempt at Ebonics.

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05/16/2013 9:56 AM

It sounds like a precursor for what people do with text messages on phones these days...

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05/18/2013 3:19 AM

The last four letters, together with h and n, would tend to be confused with each other.

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