Shavian

Alphabet born from a competition funded by playwright George Bernard Shaw's will (1950) for phonemic English spelling. Shaw spent his life mocking English orthography — famously noting "fish" could logically be spelled "ghoti." Designed with 48 signs by Kingsley Read in 1960. While a small community of English spelling reform advocates use it, the script failed to gain mainstream adoption. Frequently cited in linguistics and typography studies as a "lesson in why spelling reform fails."