Alphabetical (54 page)

QWERTY keyboard,
255–66
,
271
,
293
;
see also
typewriter

Ransome, Arthur,
298

Read, Allen Walker,
225
,
318

Reading Made Easy
(booklet),
30

reading skills,
38

Reed, Lou,
146–8

Reinhardt, Django,
65

Renaissance,
173
,
238
,
324

Renner, Paul,
290–1

rho,
113
,
268

rhymes,
30–1
,
36
,
136
,
151
,
271–81
,
326
,
406
;
see also
poetry

Rich, Jeremiah,
242

Richard, Cliff,
398

Richardson, Marion,
97–102

Ritter, Nate,
293

Roman: alphabet,
18–20
,
72
,
137
,
340
; Republic,
131
; Italy,
137
; inscriptions,
160
,
228
,
252
,
284
,
324
; Empire, Holy,
181
; Catholicism,
189

Romans, the,
3
,
13–23
,
42
,
53
,
72
,
86
,
94
,
108
,
118
,
124
,
133
,
176
,
252
,
268
,
310
,
324
,
339–40
,
364
,
376
,
388

Rome: Imperial,
204
,
228
,
268
; public library,
397

Romic alphabet,
247

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
184

Roosevelt, Theodore,
246–7

Rosen, Connie (author's mother),
349
,
353

Rosen, Harold (author's father),
349

Rosen, Michael:
Mind Your Own Business
,
262

Rosetta Stone,
9–10
,
12
,
116–17

Ross, Nelson E.,
314–15

Rowling, J. K.,
184

Royal Academy of Arts, London,
300

Royal Air Force (RAF),
316

Royal Navy,
315

Royal Society,
297

runes:
19
,
71
,
77
,
338–44
; inscriptions,
340

Runestone Museum,
338

Runo-Dynamics: First Law of,
342

runologists,
338
,
342–4

Russell, George William,
184

Russian language,
125
,
129
,
161
,
205
,
294
,
354

Ruthwell Cross,
343

Sacy, Silvestre de,
10

St Andrew: cross of,
372

St Bartholomew's Day massacre,
239

St Ovid, Fair of,
304

St Petersburg,
305

Salinger, J. D.,
188

saltire,
372

Sandburg, Carl,
277

Sanskrit,
299
,
302

São Paolo,
329

Sarati,
168

Saxons, the,
9
,
69
,
339–42

Saxony, Lower,
340

Scandinavian:
74
,
329–30
,
337–42
; alphabet,
329–30

Scherbius, Arthur,
58
,
61

Schleswig-Holstein,
339

Schoeffer, Peter,
84

Scotland,
233
,
341–3
,
347
,
369
,
372

Scots: Mary Queen of,
48
,
50
,
239
,
261
; language,
90
,
178
,
224

Scottish islands,
341

scripts: ancient,
12
; fictional,
168

Second World War,
45
,
143
,
300
,
317
,
331
,
354

Sejong, King,
164

Self, Will,
394

semaphore,
296–303

Semites: ancient,
12–13
,
160
,
204
,
218
,
284
,
376

Semitic: language,
2
,
130
,
136
,
176
,
192
,
268
,
310
; writing,
14
; inscriptions,
176
,
192
,
268
,
310
; sounds,
218

Senghor, Léopold,
168

Seoul,
163

Se-quo-ya
see
Guess, George

serifs,
2
,
22
,
42
,
64
,
80
,
103
,
108
,
136
,
144
,
160
,
176
,
192
,
228
,
264
,
284
,
310
,
388

Serre, Charles Barbier de la,
303

Seville,
295

sex chromosomes,
370–1

Shakespeare, William:
5
,
48
,
183
,
194
,
219
,
240
,
243
,
261
,
276
,
286
,
292
,
334
,
361
,
388–9
;
Twelfth Night
,
183
;
Henry V
,
219
;
The Tempest
,
292
;
Hamlet
,
352

Shavian alphabet,
246–7

Shaw, George Bernard,
141
,
246

Shelton, Thomas,
240–1

Sholes, Charles Latham,
256–8

Shoreditch Church,
395

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, The
,
349–51

shorthand:
231–50
; phonetic alphabets,
231–5
; Pitman's ‘New Church',
231
; textbook,
232
; reformed spelling alphabet,
235
; brachygraphy,
237
; stenography,
237
; used by ancient Greeks,
237
; used by medieval monks,
238
; used by Charles Dickens,
242
; used in court proceedings,
242
; Psalms published by Jeremiah Rich,
342

Sicily,
297

sigma,
113
,
117–19
,
188
,
284

sign systems,
9
,
78
,
286–9
,
303
,
306

signalling systems,
296–8

signs and symbols: study of,
288

Simplified Spelling Board (SSB),
245–6

Simpson, N. F.,
184

Sinai,
12

Sinclair, Iain,
394

Singh, Simon,
55

slang,
70
,
85
,
96
,
173
,
179–80
,
316
,
335
,
352
,
360–2
,
383
,
389

Slavic language,
303

Slavonia
(Cunard liner),
317

Slovak language,
294

Smith, George,
13

Snorri
(Viking ship),
338

Snowden, Edward,
47–52

social media websites: Facebook,
104
,
147
; Twitter,
104
,
147
,
293–4
; forums,
146
; blogs,
147
; chatrooms,
293
,
319

Socrates,
306

Soho,
391

Solem,
337

‘Song of Songs' (biblical),
392

Song of the South
(film),
392

SOS,
302
,
314
,
317

Spain: Arab presence,
276

speech: evolution of,
75

Speedwell Ironworks, Morristown,
301

speedwriting,
237

spelling reform,
73
,
81
,
177
,
236
,
243–50

Spelling Reform 1 (SR1),
247

Spot the Ball competition,
369

Ssiquoya
see
Guess, George

Star Trek
,
118
,
168

Star Wars
,
168

stenographic characters,
242

Stenographic Sound Hand
(Pitman),
234

stenography,
237
,
242

Stevenson, Robert Louis,
277
,
369–70

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT),
189

Stratford-upon-Avon,
240

Suetonius,
53

suffixes,
29
,
219
,
241
,
285
,
294
,
377
,
389

Sumerians, Ancient,
11–13
,
77

Sunday School,
209

Swift, Jonathan,
318

Sydney,
231–2

syllabiary,
77

symbols: used to represent syllables,
11
,
77
,
167
; Phoenician,
17
; visual,
32
; as phonemes,
236
; systems of,
288

sympathetic consonants,
204

synonyms,
46

syntax,
61

Ta Hwa Miao people,
169

Table Alphabeticall
(monolingual dictionary),
398

tachygraphy,
237
,
240

tau,
114
,
310

teaching aids,
98

Tengwar of Feanor,
168

Tengwar of Rumil,
168

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord,
247

Terpsichore,
197

text: left-handed,
407
; right-handed,
407

Thailand: Lisu spoken in,
169

Thalia,
197

Thermodynamics: First Law of,
342

theta,
48
,
114
,
118
,
188

Third Reich,
291

Thomas, David,
98

Thomas, Dylan,
279

thorn (disappeared letter),
8
,
19
,
71
,
76
,
95
,
311
,
339

Thorpe, Jim,
294

Tibeto-Burman language,
169

tilde,
329
;
see also
accents

Times, The
,
127
,
146

Tiro, Marcus Tullius,
237–9
;
see also
Cicero

Tironian notes,
237–8

Titanic
, RMS,
314

Tolkien, J. R. R.,
168

Tolstoy, Leo,
335

Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book
,
31

tongue-twisters,
214
,
385

Toxic Club
(TV programme),
180

Trafalgar, Battle of,
298

Trajan's Column,
2

Treasure Island
,
369

trigraphs,
109

Tristram Shandy
,
262

Trithemius, Johannes,
55

Trowbridge,
231–2