OGDEN's BASIC ENGLISH
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    If one were to take the 25,000 word Oxford Pocket English Dictionary and take away the redundancies of our rich language and eliminate the words that can be made by putting together simpler words, we find that 90% of the concepts in that dictionary can be achieved with 850 words. The shortened list makes simpler the effort to learn spelling and pronunciation irregularities. The rules of usage are identical to full English so that the practitioner communicates in perfectly good, but simple, English.

    We call this simplified language Basic English, the developer is Charles K. Ogden, and was released in 1930 with the book: Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar. He founded the Orthological Institute to develop the tools for teaching Basic English. His most famous associate, I.A. Richards, led the effort in the Orient, which uses the techniques to this day.

Table of Contents

• Encyclopedia Americana
• Basic English: a General Introduction with Rules and Grammar -- Summary of the original book.
• Rules: Points of Grammar
• Basic English Word Lists
  • Ogden's Basic English Word List
  • Alphabetic Listing
  • Basic English Words in Some Categories
  • Basic English Words in Pictures   ☺
        Pronouns, operations, directions, more
        Picturable word list   - draft
  • Basic English Verbs and Prepositions
• International and Supplementary Words
      Discussion of International / Supplementary Words
      "International Words" - alphabetic listing
      Compound Words - alphabetic listing
      Next Steps to 1,500 word level - alphabetic listing.
      Basic English - combined word lists - alphabetic
• Miscellaneous Rules and Comments by Ogden.
• Books - Yes !
  •     Textbooks
  •     Reading Books
  •     Sources
• Readings in Basic - over 1000 example pages
Ramblings
• Selected E-mails - outdated,
• Glossary - draft
• Topics -- menu to some key topics.
• Found on the Web - summary of links.
  • Basic English Forum - unaffiliated
  • VOA Special English
  • Universal Language Dictionary project - Richard K. Harrison.
    • Basic English Words in ULD Categories
    • Basic English Word List as used in the ULD project.
• Pictures : Ogden and Richards . Links : CKO , IAR
• Biography : C. K. Ogden: a bio-bibliographic study by W. Terrence Gordon.
      Who history
• Basic English and Grammatical Reform   or   here.
• It Can Be Done!
• Humor
• Critique of the Critics
• Needs / Projects for the 21^st Century
• Basic English Institute   With the creation of the Basic English Institute, the pages concerning the expansion of Basic English have been moved there and expanded.
  • What's New - Basic English News
  • Projects Underway - Word Processing .
        Spell Check , Translation
  • Other Languages - Spanish & French worksheets ,   Danish , Russian ,  Japanese
  • Opportunities to contribute in technical and compilation areas.
  • Downloads
• Basic and Religion
  Thoughts on Religion Wordlist
• Thoughts on Business Wordlists
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