TOPICS in OGDEN's BASIC ENGLISH
Subject Listings -- Work in Process

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Ogden's Basic English website is 330 pages, at last count, some of which are each a dozen printed pages.

Also see : Found on the Web for some offsite listings by topic, but not kept up to date. There are now lots of references to Basic English; when we started in 1996, there was only one -- and it was expiring.

How was Basic English Developed?
• Encyclopedia Americana
• Panoptic Method


Examples written in Basic English
• Readings -- This listing became large is now on its own readings page.
• ReadPlease --     Use ReadPlease to hear each of these works spoken in Basic English. <--
      Or , NaturalReader.
• Online : Ryota's Daybook


Grammar
• Simplest Rules: Points of Grammar
• Basic Teacher
• Verbs / Operators Ogden liked to say there are only 16 verbs required in Basic English as a key to clear thinking and speech. However, there are dozens of helper words.
• Prepositions / Directives | Directions
• (more)


Texts and Books
Production of books written in Basic English continues. The dictionaries and some of Ogden's original books are in print. But be cautioned that many of the works listed in Ogden's original book lists are now out of print. Many are available as collector's items.
• Textbooks and Sources
• Reading Books In or About Basic English
• Books - 1968 list


The Words
Basic English has 850 words that are the core to expression of almost every concept in a pocket dictionary. However there are other categories of words included, along with a migration path to the 2,000 word level at which point the student is approaching a knowledge of standard English and is able to continue learning on his own.
• The 850 words.
      Ogden's Basic English Word List
      Alphabetic Listing
• Prefix and suffix
• Supplementary Words
  • International Words
    International Words
    Discussion of International / Supplementary Words
    "International Words" - alphabetic listing
  • Common words - numbers, days, etc.
  • The General field 100 words:
  • The Specialty area 50 words.
  • Compound words - from 850 level
    Compound Words - alphabetic listing
• Next Step 150 words - "The first supplement consists, therefore of the 150 names of animals, plants, and foods, which have no international distribution."   ,be4 , [missing] , guesses
• The Subsequent 350 words to move towards full English
      To the 1,500 word level - alphabetic listing
• End Point -2000 word level
      Basic English - combined word lists - alphabetic
• The complete 850 word vocabulary - "A" word list, computer able.
• Words in Pictures : Picturables , pronouns, operators, directions

Electronic Office
• Translation : Translation , ReadIDP
• Spell Check : Spell Check , ReadOOo

Esperanto : sbe11a , be4 , bevsespr , beas , isl113 , sbe124
be29 beweb bewho bntew books booksum1 critique dicintro ebe isl127 isl131 isl530 sbetoc texts value

Panoptic method of selecting the words : be1 , be4 , dictionary , isl111 , psyche35 , panoptic
be3 be23 beas begr isl112 isl113 isl530

Panopticon -- Ogden's Word Wheel : wordwheel , OWW program

Verbs / Operators / Acts : verbs , isl2a1 , isl2c1 , isl121 , isl124 , be1 , be2 , be3 , be4 , be23 , be26 ,
beas , begr , bewords, dictionary , ebe , isl111 , isl112 , isl113 , lbe1 , nearer , psyche35 , sbe110
be25 beweb booksum1 ckobio dictintro ep2 isl132 isl211 isl2b1 isl530 islabc meaning ramble sbetoc wordthere wordwheel
SIMPLE ENGLISH - Basic plus Freq plus VOA.
Simple English and Simple Wikipedia Wordlists



Book -- Ogden's Basic English -- the book draft will cover many of these same topics
1. What Basic English is.
2. History
3. The System
4. Examples
5. Glossary and References
6. Special Wordlists
7. Modifications
8. Rubric
9. The Next Steps
10. Helps -- spell check, translation. links
11. Appendix (Either several word lists and/or use web links)
    • The Basic Words
    • International Words (include Internet, 20th Century words)
    • Almanac words -- calendar, measurements, money, etal
    • Symbols and Abbreviations
    • Complex words (compounds)
    • Full Wordlist - derivatives and compounds
    • Special Wordlists -- General and Specialty
    • Next Step -- 150 plus 350
    • New derivatives and compounds
    • Basic 2000

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Unfortunately, this will not search the book collection.

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Last updated . January 20, 2006 -- add Simple English
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