Editing Robert Bridges (section)

== Phonetic alphabet ==
[[File:All the World’s a stage in Robert Bridges's phonetic alphabet, 1913.png|center|thumb|500x500px|"All the World’s a Stage" set in Bridges's phonetic alphabet.]]
Robert Bridges developed his own phonetic alphabet for English, with the help of the phonetician [[David Abercrombie (linguist)|David Abercrombie]],<ref>{{Cite journal |date=16 October 1913 |title=Robert Bridges' literary alphabet |url=https://archive.org/details/independent76newy/page/131/mode/1up |journal=The Independent |volume=76 |pages=131}}</ref> though the letters were designed by the distinguished typographer [[Stanley Morison]], of the [[Monotype Corporation]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bridges |first=Robert |url=https://archive.org/details/collectedessaysp0000brid_n2c3 |title=Collected Essays, Papers, &c., of Robert Bridges |publisher=University Press |year=1932 |location=Oxford}}</ref> The [[Oxford University Press]] printed seven volumes of his ''Collected Essays, Papers, &tc.'' in the alphabet. Bridges was also a founding member of the Society for Pure English.<ref>Horsley E M, ''Hutchinson's New Twentieth Century Encyclopedia'', London 1964</ref>