This system was described in a book called "Regularized English", written by a Swede, A. Wijk, in 1960. It was an attempt to regularize English spelling while departing as little as possible from the traditional style.
Pairs of letters were used to represent long vowel sounds, but in long words just the single-letter representation was used. So there was 'greit' (great), but 'nation' and 'engaged'.
'z' was used in most places for the 'z' sound, but 's' was retained in forming plurals - so there was 'iz' (is) and 'thare'z' (there's), but 'arroes' (arrows) and 'stocks'.
Consequently, while the text looked very similar to traditional spelling there remained many glaring inconsistencies - such as using 'g' to represent the 'j' sound in 'engaged'; and the spelling 'th' in 'the' and 'that' but not in 'faadher' (father). These problems are apparent in the sample:
Foarscore and seven years ago our faadhers braught forth on this continent
a new nation, conceevd in liberty, and dedicated to the propozition that aul
men ar created equal. Now we ar engaged in a greit civil wor, testing whedher
that nation, or eny nation so conceevd and so dedicated, can long endure. We
ar met on a greit battle-field ov that wor. We hav cum to dedicate a portion
ov that field az a final resting-place for thoze hoo here gave their lives
that that nation might liv. It iz aultogedher fitting and proper that we
shood do this.
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