The rest of the preface is a harangue on alphabet reform and has little to do with Wilson's theories.

Various Russian alphabet reforms were influential as well, especially Peter the Great's Russian Civil Script of 1708 (the Grazhdanka).

Well ahead of his time, Akhundov was a keen advocate for alphabet reform, recognizing deficiencies of Perso-Arabic script with regards to Turkic sounds.

He began his work regarding alphabet reform in 1850.

What we need is alphabet reform, and shorthand is the thing.

In 1966 he published the Quikscript manual which set out the alphabet's rationale, and briefly discussed different possible methods of alphabet reform.

The goal of the alphabet reform is not to raise literacy rate.

Yaşar Nabi, a leading pro-Kemalist journalist, argued in the 1960s that the alphabet reform had been vital in creating a new Western-oriented identity for Turkey.

The literacy rate did indeed increase greatly after the alphabet reform, from around 20% to over 90%.

Notoriously, he hoped that the bulk of his money would be spent on alphabet reform.