Bernard Shaw's Language

"Bernard Shaw," the well-known English writer, proposes introducing certain fundamental amendments to the English alphabet, so that it would consist of forty-two letters instead of twenty-six as at present. He holds that the proposed language would help those who speak English to express in writing every letter and every syllable of the spoken tongue.

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He has declared more than once that he is prepared to grant any sum of money asked by any cultural society able to carry out his proposed scheme, and he has said that there is nothing strange in increasing the alphabet to forty-two letters, for the Persian language is made up of thirty-four letters, Hindustani of thirty-five, Hungarian of thirty-eight, and Japanese of seventy-three letters.