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A capital for every English sound.
Also known as: Unifon alphabet
The script devised in the mid twentieth century to teach English reading with one letter to a phoneme.
Writes English with one capital letter to each phoneme, for teaching reading.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Built as a teaching bridge rather than a replacement: children were meant to learn it, read in it, and transfer to ordinary spelling — so the script was designed to be abandoned by everyone who learned it.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Forty capital letters built from straight lines and simple curves, with no small forms at all, several of them modified Latin capitals.