Glossic
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See also: glossic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Latin glossa (“a word requiring a gloss”), + -ic.
Proper noun
[edit]Glossic
- A system of phonetic spelling based upon the present values of English letters, but always using one symbol to represent one sound.
- 1873, The quarterly journal of science and annals of mining, metallurgy, engineering, industrial arts, manufactures, and technology, page 382:
- Mr. Ellis's Glossic is a new concurrent system of spelling, intended to remedy the defects, without interfering with the use, ...
- 1892, James Gow, A Method of English for Secondary Schools, page 162:
- The Glossic version is taken from Ellis's English Dialects, pp. 28, 29, compared with the more exact pateotype version in his English Pronunciation, Part V. pp. 61, 52. I have ventured to alter Ellis's Glossic spelling wherever I thought that I could ...
- 1971, Roman Jakobson, Word and Language, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 458:
- The last improvement of Ellis's notational experiments was his 'veri eezi' Glossic of 1871, coupled with the Universal Glossic which aimed “at giving simbelz faur dhi moast mine'ut foanet-ik anal-isis yet achee-vd”.
References
[edit]- “Glossic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.