[darebak]

There was some English guy that tried to create an English alphabet where each letter would correspond to exactly one sound, so around 44 letters in total. Kinda like Serbian Cyrillic.

I can't remember his name or the name of his project though.

[blaxis]

Shavian? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet

[darebak]

Yeah, that's the one.

[ralferoo]

Not heard of this particular script before (although I see the answer was already posted), but it seems a bit redundant to have created an incompatible system when shorthand was in widespread use in the UK at the time, albeit mostly only used in a secretarial context.

[pessimizer]

That's doomed from the start. There's no way English speakers could deal with a written language with 19 different vowels.

[thechao]

And which dialect!?