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›.
 * 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.
 * Not every word spelled with ‹ou› or ‹ow› has a French influenced spelling, only ones which are pronounced [aʊ] or [ʌf], such as plough, and tough.

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. If you feel you absolutely must get rid of French ‹ch› then I recommend using ‹c› for /tʃ/ and ‹k› for /k/, since there is some evidence English was heading in this direction before the Norman Invasion, like the appearance of the spelling Dorkeceastre in the Anglo-Saxon chronicle (Winchester Manuscript, in the section about the year 635).

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› or ‹g› because it is hard to determine how foreign we should deem ‹gh›. It is likely that Middle English would not have been content with using ‹h› or ‹g› for /x/. Orm came up with [ȝh] for /x/ in the 12th century.

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.

Evidence
"The development of people offers a good paradigm for many words ending in -LE: Lat populum > OFr poeple > ME peple > people. The final syllable of people and similar words was commonly spelt in ME with a wide variety of vowel letters, as -EL, -IL, -UL, -YL, etc. In EModE, printers showed a growing tendency to prefer the Fr -LE spelling in many words of both Franco-Lat and OE descent." - Upward C, Davidson G (2011) The History of English Spelling, Wiley-Blackwell, pages 108-110.

"The form anneal, however, derives from OE anælan; spellings of this word with NN are first attested in the 17th century, by analogy with Latinate forms such as annex (compare similar doubling of C, F, L in accursed, afford, allay)." - The History of English Spelling, Christopher Upward & George Davidson.

"...[ȝh] is used for 'softened' intervocalic g, an allophone of g and h in Old English. This is a sound at the back of the throat with no equivalent in Modern English, as it has now disappeared completely. It never occurs in initial position." - Orrm's alphabetic innovation, Andrew Cooper.