CJ:  Steve, almost correct. The key to producing a phonetically regular spelling that is decipherable or understandable is that each and every syllable of the word must be spelt just as that syllable sounds in phonetic 'chunks'.

SB:  How about some examples?:  e.g.,  pencil
pen-  penn-  pens-   |   -sl,  -  sil,  -  sul,  -  sal,  -  sol,  -  sel, *  - cel,  - cil,

*I am not sure that penscil and penscel would be legitimate spellings. Some would consider them phonetically plausible.

So even in this simple 5 letter word with a transparent stressed vowel, there are three ways to spell the first syllable and 8 ways to spell the second syllable. 

SB: Craig, I want something a little tighter since what is decipherable or phonetically plausible for one person may not be so for another.  I want to limit it to just high frequency spelling patterns. I think all of these would be included in the spelling software.  As I recall, however, there were some patterns that were not included and some that were included that were not exactly high frequency. 

Unstressed vowels can be spelled aeiou as well as a few other ways. 
pensl - pensil,  pensul,  pensal,  pensol,  pensel

CJ:  Margaret Peters the UK expert called these spelling pattern ' phonetically plausible'
spellings. These understandable patterns can then be converted electronically to correct spelling by electronic phonetic spelling calculators or an academically competent student can correct the word through co-operative proof-reading and editing processes. Most students with conventional spelling difficulties find it remarkably easy to 'crack' the phonetic spelling code but never entirely master the standard spelling code. Craig.
www.foolswisdom.com/~sbett/

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SB: Craig, Here is a rough draft of the book review that you requested. What I need to complete it is some help from you on the problem of designing a New Bee. I don't want to disqualify anyone who can produce a "fonetik" spelling.

This should be easy for you since you do have a test to determine just when the student has
achieved Fonetik spelling or what I call analogical spelling using the five highest frequency vowel spelling patterns and the two highest frequency consonant spelling patters.
e.g., /s/=

The purpose of the FONETIK program is to bring students identified as poor spellers to the analogical stage of invented spelling. The intervention program has been quite successful in putting students on track in encoding the words they know how to pronounce.
 

Italian Spelling
http://www.dwcummings.com/qanda/default.asp?qaA=da&qandaID=38
www.ominglot.com

French Spelling

Does this make sense?

Grade Level	Read	Write	Hear	Read TO	Read i/t/a	Possible
K 1 2 3 4 5	58 280 440 750 860 930	0 0 280 440 750 860	8000 8000+ - - - -	58 140 240	0 560 880	0 2000 4000
Total	3318	2330	8000+

Based on research by ....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/tutors/lessonplans/spelling/rtf/long_a_sound.rtf

The average 3rd grader reads 440 words as sight words and spells 280. 


 

/eI/, e, EI, or ei	they, rey,	ray	rae  sundae
	rein	rail, rain	race, rale, rane

IN THE MIDDLE

-a-e

save         take         hate         rake         ape          slave

make        stale         lane          blame       fame        wave

-ai-

pain          stain         pair          lair           rain

plain         grain        grail          chain        train

-eigh- (also a plausible terminal spelling)

eight         sleigh       weigh       weight

-ei-  

rein          feint         heinous   

sei would probably be considered a plausible terminal spelling by the Franklin Spelling ACE.  I don't think it is plausible, sey is plausible.

AT  THE  END

 

-ay

bay          stay         Wednesday     pray         fray

away        spray               play                  crayfish    clay

-ey

they         prey         hey          whey       

 

Name:                                                                                    Date:

Sp____n  _____t  l__t__  Tuesd___  m___d___

w____t  r___gn  cr___fish  cr__n__  let us pr___

mund__n__  st___n  bl__m__d  _____teen  cl___m

 Spane,  Speign, Spein, ... Spain   Only possibilities listed here.
Spean, Spaen, Span, not considered.

 

 FORTASTE   written in SSS House Stile Ver. 2
Sonnet  by Theo Halladay

 We do not speek with just one single voise,
 Yet now our inglish tung is everywair;
 Our alfabet is sumthing all can shair,
 A tool, a gift to make the hart rejoise.
 But sumthing stil is lacking; thair is stil
 No regular, predictable aray
 Of simbols maching sounds, no serten way
 For riting to be understood at wil.

 So menny of our spellings ar surprizing,
 Too menny sounds of every vowel expected,
 Reeders and riters fretting and surmizing,
 How is it spelld?  How is it sed?  Dejected,
 Sum fale.  Let's hale the movement now arizing
 By wich our spelling is at last corected!

RULES by line:  1. ee for long e before a consonant.
[2] ing is the mor common spelling of this sound.  <Englishsounds a little different than <Inglishwhen when component phonograms are pronounced. [E = ee, eh, I = ie, ih].  <airis on way of expressing the ambiguous sound /er/ or  /ar/ or  /ayer/ . The rule is to spell anything that sounds anything like <fairby that letter sequence.  care=cair. their = thair, and so on.
[3] drop ph.  in alphabet.  Unstressed <ois now usually pronounced /V/ and so it should be spelled that way in words such as <tongue>.
[4] Terminal /s/ will be spelled se instead of ce.
[5] Remove double consonants from one syllable words since there is not need to mark stress.  <stillbecomes <stil>
[6] No double consonants after an unstressed vowel.  <arraybecomes <aray>
[7] <cis reserved from the /k/ sound. 
 

This is an example of good analogical spelling.  Words are spelled with a high frequency pattern. 
For more poems: http://www.spellingsociety.org/media/poems.html#lingo

How do you find words in a dictionary if you have never seen them spelled?

Its arrival of a new speller's dictionary will come as a relief to anyone who has spent infuriating time flicking through a dictionary in search of a word they have no idea how to spell.
http://www.spellingsociety.org/media/bloomsbury.html

I think the approach should be to teach a key spelling and use it to look up words in a reverse dictionary.  We have one such reverse dictionary but it is based on Truespel which is a little difficult to learn.

  Pacify them with Fonetik Spelling  

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 Fool's Critique:

Jackson wants to have limited free spelling.  Any spelling that matches a pattern is OK.  Matches have to be positional.  ghoti is not a fonetik spelling of fish because the gh never represents /f/ in the initial position.  What Jackson wants to stop are unphonetic random spellings and his program seems to do that..