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7 unusual facts about Alexander John Ellis


Alexander Ellis

Alexander John Ellis (1814–1890), English mathematician and philologist

Alexander John Ellis

His other brother William Henry Sharpe served with the Lancashire Fusiliers after moving north with his family to Cumberland, due to military work.

However, two new letters survived, ⟨ʃ⟩ and ⟨ʒ⟩; these were passed on to Sweet's Romic alphabet and from there to the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Arowry

The nineteenth-century philologist Alexander John Ellis studied the dialect of a native of Arowry, John Heatley, as part of his work, published in On Early English Pronunciation, on English dialects.

Schwa

Ellis, in his palæotype alphabet, used it for the similar English sound in but.

Society for Ethnomusicology

These and other scholars found inspiration in Viennese Guido Adler and Englishman Alexander Ellis, who both produced articles in 1885 discussing “ethnological studies” of music and the equal treatment of every society’s music.

SoundSpel

In 1910 philologist Alexander John Ellis played a major role in developing a system now known as "Classic New Spelling".



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