glossic

See also: Glossic

English

Proper noun

glossic

1. Alternative letter-case form of Glossic
   • 1877, Pennsylvania School Journal, page 411:

     sheovaalyai for 'chevalier,' although the hard necessity of such cruel and ludricious distortion is not without importance, let us look at Mr. Ellis's glossic spelling of some words with an eye not to its desirability or ...

   • 1878, Frederick Gard Fleay, English Sounds and English Spelling, page 82:

     3. With vowels spelt in my own glossic. 4. With the changes in (2) and (3) made at once — the system I should prefer. 5. Mr Ellis's glossic. 6. Mr Sweet's vowel notation and glossic consonants.

   • 1891, The Phonographic Magazine, page 200:

     But in favor of Ellis's glossic he urges: First, that the modern popularity of dialect stories prepares the way for it; second, that it requires no peculiar font, but can be set up at any printing office in any country which uses the Roman alphabet; ...

   • 1996, David Graddol, English: History, Diversity, and Change, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 79:

     Figure 2.33 A. J. Ellis's glossic alphabet from 1890 (Ellis, 1890)
     Glossic was a phonetic transcription system invented by Alexander Ellis and used by several writers for the English Dialect Society in the late nineteenth century.