Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> (b) I'm sick and tired of people demonstrating "how hard it
> is to read" vowelless English by leaving off an aleph-like
> marker from vowel-initial words.
>
> When you use that example in your textbook, make it
>
> " 's ths Ltn wrtng 'n 'bjd? "

Perhaps the second element of the diphthong in "writing" should be spelled
out as if it were a semivowel:

" 's ths Ltn wrytng 'n 'bjd? "

But, then, is it still an abjad if it has matres lectionis?

--
Marco