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Show SHAW SUGGESTS NBW ALPHABET e Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright who has lived for many years in London, suggests a new 42-letter English alaphabet, which would represent all speech sounds in the language. We have no English alphabet," declares Mr. Shaw, who says that all sounds must be spellable "before "be-fore a language can be written or read intelligently." There may be something in the Shaw suggestion, just as there is much to the agitation for a simplified simpli-fied calendar. Just the same the English-speaking people will probably prob-ably muddle along with their 26-letter 26-letter alphabet and 12-month calendar cal-endar for a long time yet. |