![]() ![]() While many will prefer to spell as they speak, this Guide exists to assist those who are seeking guidance on how to use the Androcles standard in their own writing. The hypothetical rhotic-Received Pronunciation “accent” that results is intended to be easy for most native speakers to understand, regardless of their own accent. It represents an elegant compromise between the primarily non-rhotic (R-dropping) British, Australian, New Zealand and other Commonwealth Englishes on the one hand, and the rhotic (R-pronouncing) North American Englishes on the other. The spellings in Androcles and the Lion are the closest thing that exists to an international standard for Shavian orthography. In his guide, Read sought to elaborate on the Shavian spelling conventions embodied in Peter MacCarthy’s 1962 transliteration of Androcles and the Lion, and in one or two cases, adjust those conventions. This Guide is an update to Kingsley Read’s Guide to Shavian Spelling, from which much of its content is drawn. That the spellings are arbitrary matters little so long as they are instantly recognized. So Shavian readers of three months’ standing are more than ready as writers to adopt agreed spellings. The “look” of each word must instantly suffice, and it will do so only when varied spellings are avoided. Fast reading cannot wait to analyse the sound of every letter: we should lose grasp of the sentence and of its sense. ![]() ![]() To be able to render all these oddities and subleties as we write is very fascinating, and at first hardly to be discouraged.īut we read far more than we write and we try each other’s patience if reading is not made easy. This involves spelling the same word in different ways according to local pronunciation, personal habit, formality or informality, context of words preceding and following, or degree of emphasis. The phonetic Shavian Alphabet tempts us to delight in spelling precisely as we happen to speak. ![]()
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