The playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an outspoken critic of the idiosyncrasies of English orthography. In his will, he directed that Britain's Public Trustee seek out and publish an alphabet of no fewer than forty letters to provide for the phonetic spelling of English. The alphabet finally selected was designed by Kingsley Read and is variously known as Shavian, Shaw's alphabet, ...

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Wole Soyinka is a renowned Nigerian dramatist, who was awarded Nobel Prize in 1986, for his accomplishment in the field of literature. He is a prolific writer and versatile genius of Africa. His works are based on society, culture, tradition and politics of Africa. The dramatic environment that Soyinka creates has been enriched with variegated realistic scenes portraying African life very exact...