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OGDEN's BASIC ENGLISH [French] [German] [German-2] 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 v Encyclopedia Americana Basic English Basic English: a General Introduction with Rules and Grammar -- Summary of the original book. Rules: Points of Grammar Basic English Word Lists 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 Basic 1000 Words -- all learners will know . Miscellaneous Rules and Comments by Ogden. Books - Yes ! Textbooks Reading Books Sources     WebCast -- Readings in Basic - over 1,000 pages. Bible in Basic English -- complete, 1,120 pages - path,notes,draft Radio Interview Ramblings Selected E-mails - outdated, Forum -- Glossary Topics -- menu to some key topics. Found on the Web - summary of links. VOA Special English Global 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. History : Who's Who of Language Basic English development in Psyche Basic English and Grammatical Reform or mirror 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, for the expansion into the 21st Century, the pages concerning the growth 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 Search this Web site - not current -- About this Website FAQ Awards Topics Institute * Link to: Basic English Institute About this Page: BasicEng.html -- Index to website. A place for Basic English on the Web; it is too good of an idea to be lost. Last updated March 24, 2012 Created on December 20, 1996. Contact us by URL: http://ogden.basic-english.org/basiceng.html manor -- *...