The Anglish Alphabet

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Anglish Spelling is a system I hope will be accepted as Anglish's official but optional spelling reform. I think this system is worthy of that role because I specially designed it to be. Anglish Spelling approaches spelling reform the same way Anglish approaches vocabulary; only foreign influence was targeted, and it was only reverted when I felt there were practical spelling conventions to return to.

How It Works

 * ‹qu› could also be reverted to ‹kw›, but ‹cw› aligns better with Modern spelling, which uses ‹cr› and ‹cl›.
 * ‹ou› and ‹ow› being reverted to ‹u_e› does not imply words like snow, own, cough, plough, and dough should be touched. Such words belong to different categories not necessarily related to French.
 * Thorn seems to have been knocked out of the alphabet because the printing presses imported to England were based on foreign alphabets which lacked the letter, but it should be noted that ‹th› has been used since Old English.

Here are words with irregular foreign influence, along with reversions:

What Was Not Changed
I did not revert French ‹ch› to ‹c› because that would cause confusion between pairs like cat and chat, and I am unwilling to innovate a solution since that goes beyond the purpose of this spelling reform.

I did not revert ‹sh› to ‹sc› because ‹sh› comes from ‹sch› which was likely based on ‹ch›; it would be weird to revert one and not the other.

I did not revert ‹gh› to ‹h›. In Old English, words like toh were sometimes written like tog, and this was the basis for later spellings like toȝ after Normans caused ‹g› and ‹ȝ› to split into standalone letters. Next, one starts to see ‹ȝh›, then finally today's ‹gh›. Although foreign influence was clearly at play throughout this transition, it is hard to make a ruling on how foreign we should consider ‹gh›.

I did not revert ‹w› to ‹ƿ› because both were used in Old English (although ‹w› back then was still a digraph or ligature rather than a full-fledged letter), and there's no particular reason to think English settling on ‹w› was due to foreign influence.

I did not revive ‹ð› because it seems to have died simply because ‹þ› overtook it.

I did not revert ‹wh› to ‹hw› because even though some claim ‹hw› became ‹wh› under influence of ‹ch›, I think it is more likely that ‹wr› and ‹wl› served as the basis for ‹wh›, especially after the loss of ‹hr› and ‹hl› made ‹hw› an oddity.