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spelling-reform

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• Isaac Pitman invented both the shorthand tradition and the phonetic alphabet that fed the IPA — the person-bridge the vault's Gabelsberger-shorthand cluster was missing
  capture promoted Tier 4 2026-08-17 · gabelsberger-shorthand, isaac-pitman, alexander-john-ellis, phonetic-alphabet, ipa
• Isaac Pitman published his phonetic shorthand system (Sound-Hand) in 1837, six to eight years before the English Phonotypic Alphabet
  claim budding Tier 4 2026-08-17 · isaac-pitman, pitman-shorthand, spelling-reform, history-of-linguistics, person-bridge
• Isaac Pitman and Alexander John Ellis jointly created the English Phonotypic Alphabet as English spelling reform
  claim budding Tier 4 2026-08-17 · isaac-pitman, alexander-john-ellis, english-phonotypic-alphabet, ipa, history-of-linguistics