2073: The Shavian Alphabet Aug 18, 2020

Along with the Deseret alphabet of the Mormons, there was another somewhat and temporarily successful phonetic alphabet designed for English, and also Esperanto. The Shavian alphabet, designed by Bernard Shaw—a member of the BBC's Advisory Committee on Spoken English—has 40 letters that correspond 1:1 with some English phonemes and diphthongs. It has no visual correspondence with the Latin alphabet but does use its own logic based around the height and shape of the letters, and often will represent related sounds with a rotation of the basic symbol. It also has no capitals, but does have a diacritic which functions with the same purpose. As can be discerned with the fact this post is not written in that system, and that the Shavian alphabet needs to be explained, it was never terribly successful, but it has been used in several books and newspapers.

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