As far as time can provide, there have been proposals to reform the spelling of the English alphabet, such as Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet, Unifon, and the Deseret alphabet.
Of course, I decided to take a little dip into this pond myself, and created my own English spelling reform concept... simply dubbed the New Alphabet Concept
This alphabet's purpose is to be simple, and make words look at least very close to how some might think they should be spelt.
Here is the Latin alphabet for such an alphabet:
It introduces 5 new letters: Ч, Ə, Ŋ, Ʃ, and Ʒ, and it keeps all 26 existing letters of the English alphabet
The pronunciations go as follows:
[æ] = a as in trap; [ɑː] = a as in palm; [ts] = ts as in cats; [tʃ] = ch as in cheese; [ð] = th as in then; [ɛ] = e as in help; [θ] = th as in thorn; [g] = g as in guy; [x] = ch as in loch (Scottish); [i] = i as in mediocre; [iː] = ee as in fleece; [ɪ] = i as in bizarre; [dʒ] = j as in jam; [ŋ] = ng as in sing; [ɔː] augh as in caught; [ɒ] = o as in lot [ʃ] = sh as in sheep; [u] = u as in fruition; [uː] = oo as in goose; [ʊ] = oo as in book; [ʌ] = u as in untidy; [j] = y as in yes; [ʒ] = s as in pleasure; [ə] = a as in comma
C is entirely repurposed to utilize the sound [ts], instead of predominantly [s] and [k]. G strictly follows the [g] sound, with J likewise strictly following the [dʒ] sound, so some words that have 'g' with the [dʒ] sound will be replaced with 'j'. The th digraph will be almost entirely gone, with a lot of words bearing either 'd' or 'f', depending on if it bears [ð] or [θ]. Despite the fact I include a smaller capital for 'Ʃ', I have become more lenient and I allow the usage of ''ʃ'.
As following is a sentence (that being the preamble of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms):
Whereas Canada is founded upon the principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.
And translated into NAC Latin:


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