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For best viewing  Download Unifon  Trebuchet-Georgia-ref fonts   UnifonKF06.zip Data-ctrl Uni.ttf Events:      •  Int'l Spelling Day - Oct. 8   (something everyone can do-drop unsound spelling) •  Join  the spelling society - free membership •  Quarterly meetings of the Spelling Society - University College, London     Meetings are usually on the first Saturday in Jan, April, July, and October. Past Events            •  International Spelling Conference  July 29, 2005  Mannheim, Germany   [Report]  [journal preprint]            •  Spelling-Bee Picket.  May 31, 2005 Washington, D.C.    [Report]
stbett@yahoo.com   Popular Pages:          •  Dictionary Key  - Unifon-luvit       •  Bicodal Teaching  - teach the dictionary key first  easyspl       •  Guide to Better Spelling   Schwa  Trblsm-fonémz       •  Alphabets for English - Alt.  Phonemic Transcriptions            ipa, i/t/a, WLO-Webster Latin 1, Unifon, Shavian, PMF, Spanglish, ENgliS       •  Phonemic Converters - i/t/a, Unifon, Soundspel, Truespel       •  Speech Sounds: 14 Uncombined Vowels - Key Words       •  Regularized Pronunciation & Spelling Pronunciation       •  House-Stile A Democratic Orthography - respellings approved by 51%       •  Keyboard Mapping - is there an optimum?    Preprint

• Ads  Items for sale 
• 2 stage proposal  (view article at www.spellingsociety.org)
• 4 transcriptions of Harry Potter 4transcriptions-potter.htm
• 10 words per phoneme Top 10 words per phoneme
• 14 words representing the 14 pure vowels 
• 12 Spelling Hints
• 70 phonograms.htm basic code
• 1000 GRE General Vocabulary Word List
   
• A proposed episode of the Simpsons  [Bart] see also Unifon
• acadamia-real.htm     (Nebrija 1490)
• Aesop Fables in alt. transcriptions
• Aesop2  Aesop-2 - The bat & the caged bird in alternate transcriptions
• ALC-fonetic - a writing system  promoted by the American Literacy Council
  
• Alfa-earliest-order.html - ugaritic abecedary  origin of an alphabetic order?
• Alfa evolution - graphic file
• alphabet.htm
• Alphabet History  - alfabet-history.htm
• Alphabetic writing systems  pro and con (VY)
• Alphabets for English (under construction)  Alphabets
• Alphabets and reading - Pitman  (from 1969 book)
• Alternate Transcriptions - see also Aesop above and beautiful princess below
• Alternate Transcriptions - 5 different schemes plus links  ENgliS
  xltcnut transkripSunz  unifont download
• alternota.htm
• ANJeL rationalization  [draft]
• Arabic-a.htm
   
• Bart Simpson Cartoon: A proposed episode of the Simpsons
• BASIC - BASIC1.htm
• Beautiful-princess.html
• Better English Spelling
• Better English Spelling Modified
• Biblio-Library    (bibliography)
• Bicodal Teaching
• Bicodal Hypothesis 
• Boeree's Simplified English, ENgliS compared to ALC Soundspel, Polyvalence
• Book Review  book cover
   
• Case Agasint Spelling Reform 
  How we got stuck with the world's worst spelling system
• CJ's Spelling Improvement Program Fonetik
• Coding before speech   ?
• Commonest words
• Converters   Converters2
• Conference-Report 2005 Spelcon, Germany
  
• Chronology of Spelling and Spelling Reform
   
• Davephilpot.htm   (readbygrade3)
• demorthog.html
• Dewey on Spelling Frequencies
• dialects.htm
• dialect-problem.htm
• Do we have to recommend a particular scheme
• dolch-words.html
• Discussion
• Diacritics  
• Dialect Maps http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html
  
• Dictionary.htm     Dictionary- Last updated
  quick-reference or q-ref   english-dictionary.us
• Dictionary-res.htm
• Download Fonts:  Unifon-Komic & Unifon-Franklin  Trebuchet-Georgia-ref fonts   Unifon05K
• Dual Reader - 8 transcriptions of Harry Potter
• Dying Languages  -  (see Dr. Stephen Bird)
• Discussion   Divs And Spans  - Bravenet Newsletter
• Dr. Seus's Script: A pronunciation guide notation   Colby-Phonetic
   
• Easyspel  - 4 chances to get it right
• Element - an elementary phonemic writing program
• ENgliS sounds
• englis-saundz.html
• ENgliS-short.htm
• englis-chart.htm
• ENgliS compared to ALC
• Euro-English [also a discussion group]
   
• Feral Primate by Thoreau
• Fonemic Scripts
• Fonetik-Owlfabet - Phonemic Alphabet -
• Fonetik-CJ's Spelling Improvement Program  (article - preprint)
• Franklin-webster.htm
• Funetiks 
• Font Downloads trebuchet-georgia-ref fonts.zip MS-Web fonts data-unifon.ttf
   
• Globish.htm
• Grapheme Phoneme Correspondence Tables
• GRE 1000 in five orthographies - 5 orthographies
• GRE General Vocabulary Word List 1000 words
• Grapheme Phoneme Correspondence Tables
   
• Harry Potter transcriptions    ( updated 12/04 )
• Heterographic Homophones (Chris Upward)  see www.spellingsociety.org
  
• History of English Phonemes
• History-SR.htm
• History of English Spelling  - book by the former president of the spelling society (see splbib)
  
• House stile  Shorthand
• Hybrid-electric.htm
  
  
• Index - (this page)
• iqliz-gaddrs.htm
• ilitcusE suks   click for cartooon   illiterisy sux4.gif
• International keyboard on a Windows PC
• interspel.htm  to join, send blank email to interspel-subscribe@egroups.com
• IPA-writing - IPA analog writing systems    sample-->
• IPA-SAMPA-Dan
• Iqliz by Gus Hasslequist
• Interspel  by Valerie Yule  (Fasterspel) updated
  
• ita-1 Initial Teaching Alphabet i/t/a    proposal
• i/t/a - The advantages and disadvantages of the initial teaching alphabet.
• ita-radio      (sample)
• Introducing Shavian
  
  
• John Hart (1500)   john-hart.htm 
• Keyboard Mapping  [ recommended uni-key ]   
  
• Laubach,   laubach.htm  
• Latin-like
• Library Books - UT  (see spel-bib)
• Literacy Strategy - British
• Logical English
   
• Meaning of sounds
• Mencken - Simplified Spelling (History)
• MCM.htm  Mixed Cap Notation  by Alan Beale [www.wyrdplay.com ]
• Minimizing the annoyance of Latin sound values
• MORE  (Magic e only English)
  
• Mountain Bike pictures  newlinks.htm
    
  
• NS05  (reduce to one page)    
• New Spelling        Based on Alexander Ellis' Dimiduin, circa 1890.  nu-speling  
• Replacement NS New Spelling
• Number of Vowels   [ see www.spellingsociety.org ]
   
• Old English - The Key to its spelling
• Old material
• Oxford-American.htm  [ chart for Soundspel ]
• Ozideas  [Dr. Valerie Yule]  external Website    
• Ozymandaras  [transcribed poem by Shelly]
   
• Paddock-note
• Patterns of spelling   spelling-patterns.htm 
• Phonemic defined
• Phonics and other key terms defined
• phonics-consonants.htm 
• Phonics - and the content of phonics instruction -  see 70 phonograms, 10 words per phoneme
• Pictography   pictography.htm The earliest way to represent ideas and speech may be the best
• Pictograpic scripts - PMF - pictografic monoline foentik [see pictograms, Funetiks]
• Polyvalence.htm  [chart also at     and americanliteracy.com]
• Potter-Transcriptions   updated
  
  
• Preprint  J33  Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society
• Preprint 1a  Mastering Phonemically Plausible Spelling
• Preprint 1b  Is Spelling Still Important (letter to editor)
• Preprint 2   
• Preprint 3    Hardspel by VY (radio broadcast transcript)
• Preprint4-jsss.htm  Learning to read in Macedonia
• Preprint 5   
• Preprint 6    George Bernard Shaw Can we make antiphonetic spelling unpopular GBS on Simplified Spelling
• Preprint 7 World English Spelling
• Preprint 8   Laubach
• Preprint 9          Preprint4-jsss.htm 
• Preprint10-jsss.htm  World English        preprint10-ICES.htm    
• Preprint 11  Papers presented at the International Conference of English Spelling in Germaniy
  
  
• Pronunciation Spelling -David Stark
• Pronunciation-US-UK.htm
   
• Q-REF Quick Dictionary link page
  Qalam - Writing Systems
• Quayle-Spell - A guide to invented spelling
• Quit fooling around
• Quiz on phonemic-awareness
   
• reading-research.htm
• Read by Grade 3 rEd bI grAd 3 reedbygrade3
• The Little Red Hen in 12 regularized transcriptions
• Red-Hen.htm    Red-Hen.html
• Regular English Pronunciation REP:  keep the spelling, alter the pronunciation in order to simplify the mapping between the written and spoken form of English.  This is also related to the issue of how to spell scientific words where we have altered the pronunciation from the international standard.  iodine cannot be respelled aioudain and be recognized internationally.  íódín is probably OK, Span: éodénè
   
• Reassignment of Superfluous Letters
• redundant-e.htm
• regular-spelling.htm
• representing-IPA-in-ASCII.htm
• researching-print-literacy.htm
  
• Representing IPA in ASCII
• Representing Troublesome Phonemes
• Ritcn az spOkcn
• Rules for Simplified Spelling
  
• sampa.htm
• Sartorial Parable - Robert Craig [see www.spellingsociety.org ]
• Saundspel - the phonolgy forum
• SaundSpel Introduction-
• Saxon Phonograms - 48 phonograms
• Saxon-fonograms
• shwa.htm
• schwa-representation.htm
• Shavian - Shaw Alpahbet
• Shaw   Shavian Alphabet - Introducing Shavian
• shavian-short.html
• Shorthand
• Sounds-of-GA.html  
• The Sounds of General American Speech and their representation in print
• Spanglish   
• Spanglish  - and Fanetik
• ssd.htm
  
• SP-3d: Spanglish - English written in a quasi spanish orthography
• spanish-inconsistencies  (see also Nebrija and  acadamia-real.htm )
• Speech-to-Print
• Speek-n-Spell
  
• Spelling-Bee
• Spelling Bee Flyer
• spelbib.htm  spell-books.htm
• Spelcon 2005 - Mannheim, Germany  (report on the conference)
• Spelling-Day Newspaper Campaign
• Spelling Reform - 1892proposals.txt
• Spelling pronunciation mnemonics
• Spel-pronunciation  acceptable spelling pronunciation
• Spelling Reform
• Spelling without traps (valerie yule)
• Spelling Tests
• Spelling-Bee spellingbee.htm  fooljpg fool
• Steve-letter  SMS Text Messaging 
• stress-phonemic.htm
• superfluous-letters.htm
• sweet-absurd.htm  (see  Dr. Hentry Sweet, Oxford U, on Spelling Reform)
   
• Technology is the answer-Gus
• Tense and Lax Vowels
• Text Messaging
• Text to Speech:  www.cynborg.com/cynthia/cpbet/
• Text to speech - Unifon Narrator
  
• Throw Away Code
• TH Notation
  
• Traditional English Orthography - History
• Template1
• Template2
• Template3
• TH-notation
• Troublesome Phonemes
• Truespel truespel-short.htm
• Typology of Notations
• Unifon - draft home page   www.unifon.org   Unifon-Font-Download
• unifon-intro.htm  
• Unifon-luvit.htm - overview of Unifon  
• Unifon-Polyvalence - page 2  tables
• Unifon - Newsbrief
• Ynifon-14vowels - download font to view
• Unifon-Malone
• unifon_transcription.htm
• unifon-transcriptions.htm
  
• Unifon 2 and SSA
• Alt-Trans.htm  - includes unifon.  
• Unifon-font   - download zip file now
  

• U2- unifon development group
• uu-29ways.htm
  
• Visible-speech - Melville Bell
  
   
• Webster-Franklin   Franklin and Webster  Franklin's fonetic alfabet
• Webster-Latin 1
• Weird Science-Dave
• Wikipedia
• Wi-Fi
• William Thornton 
  
• word origins
• Word Play  www.wrdplay.com
  
• World English
• Worst Alphabetic
• Writing Systems  (course outline)     Dr. Yule on Writing Systems
   
• Address-list.txt

	William Thornton    (1759-1828) Physician, Oxford graduate  Architect, designed the Capitol Planter, ran a plantation in Indies Simplified Speller designed a phonemic script
Quote:  English awt tu cantein a singl distinct maark or carracter, az the  reprizenntativ ov iech simpl sound wich iz possibl for the hiuman vois tu uter. No maark shwd reprizent 2 or 3 distinct soundz nor shwd eny simpl sound bi reprizented bai 2 or 3 diferent carracterz.                                  ~ William Thornton, 1759-1828, 1793  Thornton submitted the winning design for the U.S. Capitol building. * This is not Thornton's orthography but a  more recent one call Spanglish.
Contact:  stbett@yahoo.com  sbett@lycos.com Steve T. Bett, Ph.D. Profile:  Age 67, Retired Professor, volunteer literacy instructor, moderator, literacy austin discussion group moderator of saundspel - the phonology forum Acting moderator of the Spelling Society lists Editor, Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society
A proposed episode of the Simpsons   IPA-SAMPA-Danspel   ritcn az spOkcn - Unifon  http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/unifon/ Ritan az spoakan    .ritan az spOkan.   Riten aez spouken. Spanglish                                        ENgliS                                           IPA inspired                       Technology is the answer   World Auxiliary Language Proposal   The case for Unifon - Unifon by John Malone Unifon-luvit.htm - overview of Unifon   Minimizing the annoyance of Latin sound values   David Stark-Pronunciation Spelling  examples below Traditional Spelling Standard British Pronunciation Pronunciation of Trad. Spelling Regular Spelling ENgliS II once wVns Qns wûns w&ns young jVN jaUN yûng y&N trouble trVb@l traUb@l trûbl tr&bl mind maInd mInd mýnd mYnd  friends frendz fri:ndz frendz frendz asked A:skt {skt askd askd only @UnlI QnlI ônli Only answer A:ns@ {nsw@ ansr ans&r

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