The idea of making the IPA was first suggested by Otto Jespersen in a letter to Paul Passy. In 1888, the alphabet was revised to be uniform across languages, thus providing the base for all future revisions. For example, the sound (the sh in shoe) was originally represented with the letter ⟨c⟩ in English, but with the digraph ⟨ ch⟩ in French. Their original alphabet was based on a spelling reform for English known as the Romic alphabet, but to make it usable for other languages the values of the symbols were allowed to vary from language to language. In 1886, a group of French and British language teachers, led by the French linguist Paul Passy, formed what would be known from 1897 onwards as the International Phonetic Association (in French, l'Association phonétique internationale). Main article: History of the International Phonetic Alphabet ![]()
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