visible speech
george bernard shaw was not the only high profile kook to push for a phonetic alphabet. alexander graham bell (the inventor of the disco ball) was a staunch proponent of visible speech, a crazy moustache language which (though helpful in teaching the deaf) never really caught on. bell believed in the alphabet so much that he invested a lot of his sweet sweet telephone moolah into its promotion.
the above picture is from a road trip that i took to the bell musuem in nova scotia in august. (the same trip which yielded this.)
