Sidestepping Spelling Reform

Every once and a while spelling reform rears its ugly
head, and it was one of the first things I looked at
when starting my project to create mutant English.

But there is a way to _get_ spelling reform without
_doing_ spelling reform: Replace the Romanji Aplhabet
with a syllabary.

That's raises the question, just how large would a
syllabary have to be to semi-accurately represent all
existing English words?

Is there such a thing as a vowel-first syllabary?
Some preliminary dinking around seems to show that
vowel-first symbols (like "ak" and "or" instead of
"ka" and "ro") might work better for English.

--gary

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