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Inventive spelling (sometimes ''invented spelling'') is the use of unconventional spellings of words. Conventional written English is not phonetic (that is, it is not written as it sounds, due to the history of its spelling, which led to outdated, unintuitive, misleading or arbitrary spelling conventions and spellings of individual words) unlike, for example, German or Spanish, where letters have relatively fixed associated sounds, so that the written text is a fair representation of the spoken words. == Overview == English spelling is not intuitive and must be learned. There have been numerous proposals to rationalize written English, notably by * Noah Webster in the early 19th century (which is why the Webster's Dictionary used in the USA varies from the British Oxford English Dictionary) * Sir Isaac Pitman, inventor of Pitman shorthand about 1838, which uses symbols to represent sounds, and words are, for the most part, written as they are spoken * Dr. John R. Malone invented Unifon in the mid-1950s * Sir James Pitman (the grandson of Sir Isaac) in the early 1960s developed the Initial Teaching Alphabet * Jaber Jabbour in 2012 proposed SaypU, an abbreviated version of the International Phonetic Alphabet adapted for tourism and safety notices, which uses only part of the Latin alphabet 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Inventive spelling」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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