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As of February 8, 2024
r/shavian
the shavian alphabet / Β·π ππ±ππΎπ― π¨π€ππ©ππ§π
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Reddit is killing third-party apps, and itself. Dedicated to the alternative script for writing the English language developed by Ronald Kingsley Read and commissioned by famous playwright George Bernard Shaw. Shavian proposes itself as a largely one-to-one phonetic alphabet as an alternative to the irregular and confusing orthography of English's traditional Latin script.
Content in and about the Shavian alphabet, a phonemic alphabet designed to represent English orthography in a way that's more phonetically consistent than in the standard Latin alphabet. It consists of 40 different characters, each representing a single sound found in English with the intention of b...
1,282
August 14, 2009
public
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Total Submissions
909
Total Comments
4,067
Earliest Submission
January 11, 2010
Earliest Comment
November 10, 2011
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Most Distinctive Words
Rankβ | Wordβ | Occurrences in Subreddit | Total Occurrences | Rate in Subreddit (per 1M words) | Rate in Reddit (per 1M words) | Ratio (Sub Rate / Reddit Rate) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 279 | 129,591 | 2271.5 | 1.1 | 2102.07 | |
| #2 | 47 | 33,198 | 382.7 | 0.3 | 1382.31 | |
| #3 | 138 | 104,299 | 1123.5 | 0.9 | 1291.87 | |
| #4 | 41 | 32,607 | 333.8 | 0.3 | 1227.70 | |
| #5 | 69 | 57,720 | 561.8 | 0.5 | 1167.19 | |
| #6 | 60 | 52,955 | 488.5 | 0.4 | 1106.27 | |
| #7 | 54 | 49,257 | 439.6 | 0.4 | 1070.40 | |
| #8 | 32 | 40,771 | 260.5 | 0.3 | 766.33 | |
| #9 | 226 | 351,466 | 1840.0 | 2.9 | 627.83 | |
| #10 | 32 | 53,709 | 260.5 | 0.4 | 581.73 | |
| #11 | 64 | 137,639 | 521.1 | 1.1 | 454.00 | |
| #12 | 33 | 82,591 | 268.7 | 0.7 | 390.12 | |
| #13 | 134 | 347,267 | 1091.0 | 2.9 | 376.76 | |
| #14 | 79 | 205,777 | 643.2 | 1.7 | 374.84 | |
| #15 | 87 | 234,356 | 708.3 | 2.0 | 362.46 | |
| #16 | 355 | 1,020,166 | 2890.3 | 8.5 | 339.76 | |
| #17 | 35 | 104,769 | 285.0 | 0.9 | 326.18 | |
| #18 | 34 | 109,584 | 276.8 | 0.9 | 302.94 | |
| #19 | 135 | 489,588 | 1099.1 | 4.1 | 269.23 | |
| #20 | 132 | 539,873 | 1074.7 | 4.5 | 238.73 | |
| #21 | 50 | 214,197 | 407.1 | 1.8 | 227.92 | |
| #22 | 79 | 351,461 | 643.2 | 2.9 | 219.47 | |
| #23 | 77 | 348,914 | 626.9 | 2.9 | 215.47 | |
| #24 | 48 | 230,836 | 390.8 | 1.9 | 203.03 | |
| #25 | 88 | 463,724 | 716.5 | 3.9 | 185.29 | |
| #26 | 119 | 732,890 | 968.9 | 6.1 | 158.54 | |
| #27 | 104 | 658,847 | 846.7 | 5.5 | 154.12 | |
| #28 | 34 | 216,090 | 276.8 | 1.8 | 153.63 | |
| #29 | 59 | 422,166 | 480.4 | 3.5 | 136.45 | |
| #30 | 124 | 1,032,576 | 1009.6 | 8.6 | 117.25 | |
| #31 | 158 | 1,342,943 | 1286.4 | 11.2 | 114.87 | |
| #32 | 178 | 1,524,130 | 1449.2 | 12.7 | 114.03 | |
| #33 | 39 | 377,549 | 317.5 | 3.1 | 100.86 | |
| #34 | 63 | 631,962 | 512.9 | 5.3 | 97.33 | |
| #35 | 373 | 4,999,131 | 3036.8 | 41.7 | 72.85 | |
| #36 | 304 | 4,463,845 | 2475.0 | 37.2 | 66.49 | |
| #37 | 44 | 731,098 | 358.2 | 6.1 | 58.76 | |
| #38 | 101 | 1,770,175 | 822.3 | 14.8 | 55.71 | |
| #39 | 41 | 928,642 | 333.8 | 7.7 | 43.11 | |
| #40 | 113 | 2,688,553 | 920.0 | 22.4 | 41.04 | |
| #41 | 38 | 956,785 | 309.4 | 8.0 | 38.78 | |
| #42 | 34 | 857,057 | 276.8 | 7.1 | 38.73 | |
| #43 | 360 | 10,347,413 | 2931.0 | 86.3 | 33.97 | |
| #44 | 60 | 1,813,399 | 488.5 | 15.1 | 32.31 | |
| #45 | 114 | 3,638,299 | 928.1 | 30.3 | 30.59 | |
| #46 | 79 | 2,538,178 | 643.2 | 21.2 | 30.39 | |
| #47 | 32 | 1,102,715 | 260.5 | 9.2 | 28.33 | |
| #48 | 388 | 15,106,550 | 3158.9 | 126.0 | 25.08 | |
| #49 | 85 | 3,491,327 | 692.0 | 29.1 | 23.77 | |
| #50 | 238 | 11,692,383 | 1937.7 | 97.5 | 19.87 |