On this day in 1962 a bi-alphabetic version of George Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion was published in England, as directed by the terms of Shaw's will. For his last half-century Shaw had argued that the irrational spelling and pronunciation of the English language caused not only semi-literacy but a great loss of time and money. He was far from alone in his crusade for an alternative, but Shaw's reputation for tilting at monuments put him in the vanguard -- where he was most happy, of course, but as described here by biographer Michael Holroyd, where he was an easy target ... FULL STORY »
