How do you use Shavian in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like writer or booster, plus the exact meaning.
Shavian in a sentence
Shavian meaning
- Of or relating to George Bernard Shaw or his works.
- Of or relating to the Shavian alphabet.
Synonyms of Shavian
Using Shavian
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or relating to George Bernard Shaw or his works. | Of or relating to the Shavian alphabet.
- Useful related words include: writer, booster, admirer, champion.
- In the example corpus, shavian often appears in combinations such as: the shavian, shavian fonts, unicode shavian.
Context around Shavian
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shavian
- In this selection, "shavian" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, unicode, revise, word, fonts, side and edition stand out and add context to how "shavian" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include alphabet or shavian as it and lion had shavian side by. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shavian" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shavian
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Shavian fonts were designed by Michael Everson. (8 words)
Unicode Shavian fonts are also still quite rare. (8 words)
The "Shaw Alphabet" or "Shavian", as it is now generally known, was the result. (14 words)
Once he had analyzed the results of those tests, Read decided to revise Shavian to incorporate a number of changes to improve the alphabet and make it both easier and faster to write. (33 words)
To provide field testing of the new alphabet, Read organized a lengthy public testing phase of Shavian by some 500 users from around the world who spoke different dialects of English. (31 words)
One, like Androcles and the Lion, had Shavian side-by-side with the Latin equivalent and the other was a Shavian only edition. (23 words)
Example sentences (10)
One, like Androcles and the Lion, had Shavian side-by-side with the Latin equivalent and the other was a Shavian only edition.
In more recent years there have been several published works of classical literature transliterated into Shavian.
Once he had analyzed the results of those tests, Read decided to revise Shavian to incorporate a number of changes to improve the alphabet and make it both easier and faster to write.
The Shavian fonts were designed by Michael Everson.
The "Shaw Alphabet" or "Shavian", as it is now generally known, was the result.
The word "Shavian" has entered the language as encapsulating Shaw's ideas and his means of expressing them.
This is often assumed to be a clerical error introduced in the rushed printing of the Shavian edition of Androcles and the Lion.
To provide field testing of the new alphabet, Read organized a lengthy public testing phase of Shavian by some 500 users from around the world who spoke different dialects of English.
Unicode Shavian fonts are also still quite rare.
Unicode Shavian was added to the Unicode Standard in April 2003 with the release of version 4.0.
Common combinations with shavian
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: