Courtesy of Weird Universe, we’ve previously encountered this forty-three letter script called
Augmented Roman in which each glyph makes a distinct sound, allowing for a
fully phonetic English orthography—textual examples of which we can recall looking and being thoroughly confused as young readers. We failed to realise however that the politician, publisher and educational reformer who developed the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) was Sir James Pitman (*1901 - †1985), grandson of
Sir Isaac Pitman, who of a similar disposition, had developed a popular though far
longer-lived stenographical system.
