Word: littlewood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merely another evidence of Shavian delight in biting the hand that feeds him was Shaw's championship of a simpler English. He is now backing a new system of "Universal Pidgin" advanced by Kenneth Littlewood, a 29-year-old Yorkshire munitions worker. In his spare time Littlewood prepared a primer based on the study of Russian, Latin, Greek, French, Welsh, Arabic and Basic English. Unlike Esperanto, Universal Pidgin seldom uses more than two syllables in any word, telescopes these with borrowed syllables to make new words. Sample: "Yon fo gret blu form bel" (Those four great blue flowers...
When Simplifier Littlewood sent a rough draft of his work to Shaw the response was "By hook or crook get it published without waiting to make it any better. Then advienne que pourra...
...G.B.S. is aware that more troops of divergent tongues are fighting side by side than ever before in history. Obviously a market for a practical, simplified international language is wide open. Littlewood claims his system can be learned by anyone in two months...