SR1

SR1 was a spelling reform proposal advocated by Harry Lindgren. SR1 stands for Spelling Reform 1, and it was part of a 50-stage reform that Lindgren advocated in his book Spelling Reform: A New Approach. It spelled every short /e/ as E. It had some success in Australia and the government briefly adopted some alternative spellings along the lines of the proposal. As conceived by Lingren, it was to lead on to two possible target schemes, Phonetic A and Phonetic B.

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Spelling reform: Natural languages often develop cumbersome manners of spelling words. Particular sounds may be represented by various letter combinations, while one letter may be pronounced in various ways. This is especially true of languages such as English that borrow heavily from other languages. Spelling ref...

Harry Lindgren: Harry Lindgren (1912?1992) was a British/Australian engineer, linguist and amateur mathematician. He was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne in England....