Over the years, many people have called for language reform of the English language. Various types of reforms have been proposed.

Spelling reforms

{{main, English-language spelling reform Spelling reforms are attempts to regularise English spelling, whether by enforcing a regular set of rules, or by replacing the basic English alphabet with a new one. English spelling reforms include: Using the basic English alphabet: * Cut Spelling * Parallel English *''

Handbook of Simplified Spelling The Simplified Spelling Board was an American organization created in 1906 to reform the spelling of the English language, making it simpler and easier to learn, and eliminating many of what were considered to be its inconsistencies. The board ope ...

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SoundSpel SoundSpel is a regular and mostly phonemic English-language spelling reform proposal. It uses a 26-letter alphabet that is fully compatible with QWERTY keyboards. Though SoundSpel was originally based on American English, it can represent dial ...

* Spelling Reform step 1 (SR1) *

SaypU SaypYu (originally SaypU) ( ; acronym for "Spell As You Pronounce Universal alphabet project") is an approximative phonetic alphabet of 24 alphabet letters to spell languages, including English. The spelling system was adopted by Jaber George Jabb ...

(Spell As You Pronounce Universally) * Simpel-Fonetik method of writing *

Traditional Spelling Revised Traditional Spelling Revised (TSR) is an English-language spelling reform alternative to the semi-regular conventional English orthography (EO). TSR is a relatively conservative scheme. It seeks to identify the underlying rules of EO but to apply t ...

Extending or replacing the basic English alphabet: *

Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet was Benjamin Franklin's proposal for a spelling reform of the English language. The alphabet was based on the Latin alphabet used in English. The alphabet Franklin modified the standard English alphabet by omi ...

Deseret alphabet The Deseret alphabet (; Deseret: or ) is a phonemic English-language spelling reform developed between 1847 and 1854 by the board of regents of the University of Deseret under the leadership of Brigham Young, the second president of the Ch ...

* Initial Teaching Alphabet *

Interspel Interspel (from ''International English Spelling'') is a set of principles introduced by Valerie YuleV. YuleThe design of spelling to match needs and abilities. Harvard Educational Review. 1986. 56: 278-297.V. Yule to meet the challenge of how to r ...

Romic alphabet The Romic Alphabet, sometimes known as the Romic Reform, is a phonetic alphabet proposed by Henry Sweet. It descends from Ellis's Palaeotype alphabet and English Phonotypic Alphabet, and is the direct ancestor of the International Phonetic Alph ...

* Shavian alphabet (revised version: Quikscript) *

Unifon Unifon is a Latin script, Latin-based phonemic orthography for American English designed in the mid-1950s by Dr. John R. Malone, a Chicago economist and newspaper equipment consultant. It was developed into a teaching aid to help children acqui ...

Subsets

Subsets In mathematics, set ''A'' is a subset of a set ''B'' if all elements of ''A'' are also elements of ''B''; ''B'' is then a superset of ''A''. It is possible for ''A'' and ''B'' to be equal; if they are unequal, then ''A'' is a proper subset of ...

'' are reforms that use a restricted wordlist and grammar. English subsets include: * Attempto Controlled English * Basic English * E-Prime * Globish * Plain English * Simplified English * Special English * Specialised English

Vocabulary reforms

''Vocabulary reforms'' seek to reform English by changing or restricting its words without changing its grammar. *

Anglish Linguistic purism in English involves opposition to foreign influence in the English language. English has evolved with a great deal of borrowing from other languages, especially Old French, since the Norman conquest of England, and some of its n ...

: the use of native ( Germanic) words only, and spellings of such without foreign influence—a form of

linguistic purism Linguistic purism or linguistic protectionism is the prescriptive practice of defining or recognizing one variety of a language as being purer or of intrinsically higher quality than other varieties. Linguistic purism was institutionalized th ...

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