Shaw Alphabet

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Thank you for visiting ShawAlphabet.com, an independent educational and reference website dedicated to the Shavian alphabet, also known as the Shaw alphabet.

We welcome questions, corrections, source suggestions, technical reports, and constructive feedback that can help us make the website more accurate and useful.

Whether you are learning Shavian for the first time, researching the history of English spelling reform, working with Shavian Unicode, developing software, or simply curious about alternative writing systems, we would be glad to hear from you.

    General Questions

    For general questions about ShawAlphabet.com, our articles, learning resources, or website features, please use the contact form on this page.

    Before contacting us about the Shavian alphabet itself, you may also want to explore our:

    • Beginner Guide
    • Shavian Alphabet Chart
    • Spelling and Pronunciation Guides
    • History section
    • Unicode resources
    • Fonts and Keyboards guides
    • English-to-Shavian Converter
    • Frequently Asked Questions

    These resources may already contain the information you are looking for.

    Report an Error or Suggest a Correction

    Accuracy is an important part of ShawAlphabet.com.

    The history and use of Shavian can involve distinctions between established conventions, historical practices, dialect-dependent pronunciation, modern community usage, and alternative systems.

    The University of Reading preserves the Kingsley Read Alphabet Collection, including material relating to Shaw-script, alphabet reform, Quickscript, Readspel, correspondence, and related publications. The Unicode Standard separately documents the modern encoded Shavian character block at U+10450–U+1047F.

    If you find a factual, historical, linguistic, or technical error, please tell us.

    When submitting a correction, it is helpful to include:

    • the URL of the page;
    • the sentence, chart, character, or section involved;
    • a short explanation of the issue;
    • the correction you recommend; and
    • a reliable source supporting the correction, when available.

    Primary sources, academic publications, archival collections, official technical documentation, and established reference works are especially helpful.

    Shavian Converter and Tool Issues

    ShawAlphabet.com may provide interactive tools such as an English-to-Shavian converter, online keyboard, alphabet explorer, word lookup, Unicode utilities, flashcards, quizzes, and other learning tools.

    If you encounter a problem, please include as much detail as possible.

    For converter issues, send us:

    • the original English word or sentence;
    • the Shavian result produced;
    • the result you believe would be more appropriate;
    • the pronunciation or accent involved, if relevant; and
    • the browser or device you were using.

    English pronunciation can vary according to accent, dialect, context, and word meaning, so some conversion differences may not represent software errors. We nevertheless welcome examples that can help improve the tool.

    For technical problems, please include your operating system, browser, device type, and a screenshot if it would help explain the issue.

    Historical Research and Sources

    We welcome information about credible historical sources concerning:

    • George Bernard Shaw and spelling reform;
    • Kingsley Read;
    • the development of Shavian;
    • the alphabet competition;
    • Androcles and the Lion;
    • Shaw-script;
    • Quickscript;
    • Readspel;
    • Shavian typography;
    • early computer implementations;
    • Unicode encoding; and
    • historical projects connected with ShawAlphabet.com.

    Please provide enough bibliographic or archival information for us to verify the source.

    Previous ShawAlphabet.com Projects

    The present ShawAlphabet.com is an independent publication.

    The domain has a documented earlier history: historical references connect it with material concerning alternative or revised versions of the Shaw alphabet, and archived references to the previous site remain available through third-party historical sources.

    The current website does not claim to be the official continuation of any previous ShawAlphabet.com project.

    If you were involved with an earlier version of this domain and would like to provide historical information, clarify attribution, or raise a concern about how that history is described, please contact us.

    We are particularly interested in verifiable documentation that can improve our Project History page.

    If you believe that material appearing on ShawAlphabet.com infringes your copyright, trademark, or other intellectual-property rights, please contact us with sufficient information for us to review the matter.

    Please include:

    • your name or organization;
    • the material you believe belongs to you or your organization;
    • the ShawAlphabet.com URL where it appears;
    • an explanation of your rights in the material;
    • the action you are requesting; and
    • a reliable way to contact you.

    We take good-faith intellectual-property concerns seriously and will review sufficiently detailed requests.

    Fonts, Software and Open-Source Projects

    ShawAlphabet.com may reference fonts, keyboards, software libraries, repositories, applications, datasets, and other third-party projects useful for working with Shavian.

    If you maintain one of these projects and notice an incorrect license, attribution, compatibility statement, version number, or link, please let us know.

    Developers are also welcome to tell us about open-source Shavian projects that may be useful to our readers.

    Submission does not guarantee inclusion. Resources are reviewed for relevance, usefulness, licensing, and editorial fit.

    Educational and Research Inquiries

    Teachers, students, linguists, typographers, developers, researchers, and writers are welcome to contact us regarding the educational material on ShawAlphabet.com.

    We may be able to help identify relevant pages or point you toward primary and archival sources, but ShawAlphabet.com should not be treated as a substitute for professional academic supervision or authoritative archival research.

    Media and Interview Requests

    For media, podcast, publication, or interview inquiries concerning ShawAlphabet.com, please use the contact form and clearly identify the organization or publication you represent.

    Please include:

    • your name;
    • organization or publication;
    • topic;
    • intended use;
    • relevant deadline; and
    • preferred contact method.

    Please note that ShawAlphabet.com can speak only for this independent website and not on behalf of the estates of George Bernard Shaw or Kingsley Read, the University of Reading, the Unicode Consortium, previous operators of this domain, or the broader Shavian community.

    Guest Articles and Contributions

    We may consider original educational contributions that closely match the scope of ShawAlphabet.com.

    Potential subjects include:

    • Shavian learning methods;
    • phonetics and pronunciation;
    • English spelling reform;
    • typography;
    • Unicode and computing;
    • historical research;
    • alternative writing systems; and
    • software or keyboard development.

    We do not accept automatically generated mass submissions, undisclosed promotional articles, copied content, or articles created primarily to obtain backlinks.

    Any contribution considered for publication must meet our editorial and sourcing standards.

    Advertising and Business Inquiries

    For legitimate advertising, sponsorship, licensing, or other business inquiries relating specifically to ShawAlphabet.com, please clearly label the purpose of your message.

    Editorial coverage is not guaranteed in exchange for payment, products, services, or promotional consideration.

    Please Do Not Send

    To help us keep communication useful, please do not submit:

    • bulk SEO outreach;
    • automated link-exchange requests;
    • irrelevant guest-post pitches;
    • requests to insert unrelated commercial links into existing articles;
    • unsolicited mailing lists;
    • deceptive partnership proposals; or
    • repeated spam messages.

    Messages of this nature may not receive a response.

    Contact ShawAlphabet.com

    To contact us, please use the contact form on this page.

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    • General Question
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    • Shavian Converter Issue
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    Please provide enough detail for us to understand and properly review your message.

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    Please do not send passwords, financial information, government identification numbers, or other unnecessary sensitive information through the contact form.

    Thank You

    Shavian exists at the intersection of language, sound, writing, design, history, and technology.

    Questions, corrections, source discoveries, and technical reports from readers can help make ShawAlphabet.com a stronger resource for everyone interested in exploring the alphabet.

    Thank you for helping us build a clearer, more useful, and better-documented Shavian reference.