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fanetic transcripshan     See the Contents & Links   sp-3d    stress Problem The one feature of English that retards its adoption as a world language is its polyvalent and inconsistent spelling. This unnecessary complexity is also a roadblock to reading. A consistent phonemic writing system accelerates literacy. Writing systems that are over 85% phonemic can be learned in 3 months instead of 3+ years (Laubach, 1965). Pupils in Spain, Italy and dozens of other countries with more transparent orthographies achieve a level of literacy in 1 year that is unmatched in English speaking countries until the 4th year (P.Seymour, 2002). Research Sample  Spanglish reprazents an atempt tu rait English in an ogmented Spannish orthoggrafy.  Spanglish uses positional spelling and 10 exception rules to create a highly predictable spelling and an accurate guide to pronunciation. It even marks primary stress. The above can be derived from the dictionary key spelling below: Dictionary key spelling - 1 symbol per sound Spæñglish reprèzents æn àtempt tü rýt Éñglish in æn ôgmentèd Spænish ôrthäggràfy. Spanglish is not the first attempt to do this.  Spanish professor, Dr. Mont Follick suggested this in 1935.  Spanglish represents a successful attempt to make the orthography more like traditional English by using 10 exception rules Augmentation:  Spanglish has 14 uncombined vowels, Spanish has 5 Default primary stress is on the first syllable when there are less than 4 syllables. Double consonants are used after a stressed short vowel to identify ambiguous or irregular stress. When the a is not followed by a double consonant or digraph in a mutisyllable word, it is interpreted as a schwa.  Spanglish is not the easiest way to regularize or sound-spell English but since it is as consistent and phonemic as Spanish [about 85%] it may be easy enough.  More phonemic notations assign one symbol per sound category.  To interpret a vowel letter in the Spanglish notation, you usually need to know its position in a word and if the word has more than one syllable.  e.g., u before a consonant <up> = /V/, u terminal <flu> = /u:/. Since <a> is the default schwa in Spanglish, it has 3 possible values or interpretations depending on stress and position. In a 1 syllable word, <a> before a consonant is /æ/, a after a consonant is /ä/. <a> alone or in a multi-syllable word is /@/, the initial sound in <ago> /@'goU/ tradspel: her  herder surfer  hair  hire  here  error heir  inheritance spang:    hur  hurder surfer  heir  hair   hir    errer  eir   inheiritans Webster: hûr  hûrdør sûrfør  hár   hír    hér   erør   er    inheritøns IPA:SAMPA h3` h3`d@`s3`f@`hE@`haI@ hI@` E`@`  E`  in'hErIt&ns Spanglish can be derived from popular dictionary key spellings. Tradspel and many proposed regularized spellings cannot. If you know the dictionary key spelling, you can construct the Spanglish spelling. Many, if not most, regularized English writing systems can be read by those adept in the traditional writing system.  Ease of reading is not the true test of a new writing system.  The true test is ease of writing.  Reading speed can usually be regained after reading 5,000 words in a regularized English (Beach, 1971).  Learning how to spell by sound can take several weeks. One of the best tests of an alternative writing system is how long it takes a new learner to master its spelling.  Highly phonemic writing systems can be learned in 3 weeks and mastered in 3 months.  Mastery includes the ability to read aloud a newspaper article including words that have never been seen before.  It also includes the ability to spell, by stringing together the appropriate sound signs, any word as it is pronounced.  Most illiterates can learn to read a highly phonemic (shallow orthography) by month 3 The test of an initial teaching alphabet is how long it takes to switch or transition from this initial sound spelling to the traditional spelling.  Spanglish teaches one of the highly probable ways to spell a spoken word.  Four more high probability ways have to be learned in order to master the traditional system. In a shallow or transparent writing system where each letter represents one sound category or phoneme, there is usually only one way to spell a word.  English is said to have a deep orthography because each letter can represents two or more sounds. Dewey found an average of 14.7 ways to represent each sound in spoken English. Having a spelling system that is 99% predictable expedites learning provided there are just a few exception rules.  Spanglish has less than 12.  Spelling in Spanglish is 99% predictable with 10 exception rules.  Some have claimed that traditional English is 87% predictable with 200 exception rules. [ www.spellingsociety.org ]    C O N T E N T S How many vowels?  (14) 6 checked-8 free, 7 short-7 long Alternate transcriptions - Spanglish Fanetik Webster ENgliS Spanglish assigns a to schwa - a is the most common onset Correspondence Tables for Spanglish Spanish to English - code literacy facilitates new code literacy The oddness of schwa-u Broad phonetic transcription  brawd fonetic tranzcripshan Shavian [ The Shaw Alphabet ] Regularized English Pronunciation Links  More on Spanglish  SP-3d conventions
How many vowels?  Pure vowels:  14  [see chart on the right] Columns list:  7 short,  7 long Color codes show: 6 checked [ yellow ] and 8 free [ orange ]     Free vowels can occur at the end of a word, checked vowels cannot [in English].  Checked means that the short vowel must be followed by a consonant.  Traditionally, if we want to reference the short /E/ or the short /û/ sound, we add a silent h marker: eh, heh, uh, sofuh.. to make it look right. The schwa-a is one exception.  The unstressed schwa is shorter in duration than other short vowels yet can occur at the end of a word. The unstressed schwi-y <very> and schwi-e <delay> are similar but are not listed as short vowels.  See SAMPA for another treatment. Combined vowels: ? [no fixed number] 14 shown on right There is no agreement on the number of vowel combinations. 10 combinations listed below.  More are possible.	unstressed vowels in white: ago very same table with ENgliS letter assignments http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel/files/GP-tables/33v16-ENgliS.gif
24 Vowels & 24 Consonants old chart: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel/files/GP-tables/48saxon-fonograms.gif	This updated chart repeats most of the cell locations of the one above and adds the 24 consonants.  The 14 uncombined vowels have been supplemented with 10 combined vowels to make the chart symmetrical.  <eir> represents both /Er/ and /eIr/.  <eir> is a broad category which can also represent /{r/ or /ær/. Since the digraph <er> represents the unstressed /@r/, <air/error> is spelled <eir/ eirer> in Spanglish. The spelling <error> would be an orthographic possibility but not the first choice.  The general rule is that the shorter spelling is preferred when two or more spellings are possible.  In one syllable words, her and heir are homophones and har is a near homophone.  TO <her> /hûr/  would be spelled <hur>.  <hr> is not a possiblity because the syllabic r is always unstressed as in murmr

Spanglish has features which might make it a good teaching alphabet for people learning traditional English.  Spanglish is much simpler and consistent than tradspel but more complicated than a one-symbol per sound system such as  ENgliS .

What is the best way to learn Spanglish?  If you already know a phonemic notation such as the IPA, the chart on the right might help. Spanglish symbols (single letters and digraphs) are shown on a red background. The corresponding IPA symbol is shown on a yellow background. A 3rd notation, unigraphic ENgliS is shown on a green background. Row 1 shows 13 uncombined vowels. /3/ is missing.

1. Today's English orthography [tradspel] is only 40% alphabetic. 400 symbols for 40
     sounds would indicate that it was 10% alphabetic but this overstates the irregularity.
2. The Saxon alphabet can be restored - making English over 85% alphabetic
    Spanglish is 86% alphabetic or phonemic, a 100% improvement over tradspel.
3. Spanglish is more a spelling pronunciation reform. It is not a 100% phonemic reform
4. Spanglish restores the pre-vowel shift alphabet & uses it to "sound out" the letters.
5. The result may not sound like any particular English dialect but can be understood.
6. Spanglish generally ignores the distortions produced by the great vowel shift
7. Spanglish is mostly based on International pronunciation and spelling conventions

'Now is the time [for spelling reform] and this is the country'  In the early 1800's,  Noah Webster remarked,
"Letters, the most useful invention that ever blessed mankind, lose a part of their value by no longer being representatives of the sounds originally annexed to them."  The effect is, "to destroy the benefits of the alphabet."  Dissertations on the English Language, 1878

Noah Webster  (1758-1843),  along with his friend and contemporary Ben Franklin  (1706-1790), advocated pronunciation guide spelling and promoted spelling reform. 

Webster was aware that there was a time in English history when the language had a fully functional alphabet. Tenth century clerics devised a Latin based alphabet for English that made it possible to spell words as they were pronounced and pronounce words as they were spelled. This and ease of teaching & learning are the principle benefits of alphabetical writing systems.

People generally learn the most frequent 1000 words in English as sight words and meaning signs.  They do not sound out letters in these words and once learned there is no need to sound them out.  They are functional semagrams. 

Could the restoration of the benefits of the alphabet be as simple as restoring the (pre GVS) Saxon alphabet?  Could the usefulness of the alphabet be restored by restoring the sounds originally annexed to the letters?  That is the guarded conclusion of at least two spelling-pronunciation reform proposals.

A spelling pronunciation [SP] reform differs from a phonemic reform.  Instead of referencing a particular dialect, the reference is to traditional spelling.  This kind of reform can minimize the number of words needing to be respelled by creating an artificial dialect that can be understood by all English speakers.  (see Robert Bridges, English Pronunciation, 1916)

Some have argued that you cant restore a sound based alphabet because English has too many dialects. The SP proposal gets around this objection.  Only words that cannot be understood when pronounced according to the Saxon alphabet are respelled.  The proposed reform brings pronunciation more in line with international pronunciation and spelling more in line with international spelling. 

Dictionary pronunciation guide spelling in 5 notations

Spanglish allows the use of marked shifted vowels.  á é í ó ú  can replace ei ie ai ow uu
The full dictionary can be found at:  www.unifon.org or www.wyrdplay.org

Two Spanglish Correspondence Tables -

Just the 14 Pure Vowels + Comb. where are the 33v in 28 cells?

White boxes refer to unstressed symbols: e.g. schwa-a and -er  are always unstressed. 
Bluish  boxes refer to diphthongs.  ei and ow are not necessarily diphthongs but they are usually pronounced as such by native English speakers.  /o/ = monothongal Spanish o.    
w refers to the IPA /U/ as well as the consonant w (usually at the beginning of a word)
r can refer to the vowel r /3`/ and /&`/ as well as the consonant r.

  IPA and Spanglish Transcription

IPA Broad Transcription:

məʊst men, i:vən ən ðɪs kəmpeərətəvli fri: kʌntrɪ:, θru: mir
ɪgnərəns ænd məsteɪk, ɒ:r səʊ ɔkjəpaɪd wɪð ðə fæktɪʃəs keərz ænd
su:pərflu:əsli kɔ:s leɪbərz ʌv laɪf ðæt ɪts faɪnər fru:ts kænɒt bi:
plʌkt baɪ ðem.

There is a near isomorphism between IPA above and Spanglish below. All proposed new orthographies for English should be derived from a dictionary key spelling. This may require both symbol to symbol mapping and exception rules. 

Mowst men, ievan in this camperrativly frie cuntry, thru mir ignerans and masteik, aar so occyapaid with the factishas kaerz and swper'fluuasly kors leybers uv laif that its fainer (fýner) fruuts canaat bi pluct bý them.

RITEspel  from Zè do Rock

Spanglish

Tradspel:  575 characters 45% of 106 words unchanged.  463 characters Wunse upon a time, the butiful dauter of a grate majician wanted mor perls tu put among her tresures. "Look thru the senter of the moon wen it is blu," sed her roil muther in anser tu her question. "U mite fynd yor harts dezire." The fair prinsess lafd, becauz she douted thees werds. Insted, she uzed her imajination, and moovd intu the fotografy bizness, and took pictures of the moon in culler. "I perseev moast sertenly that it is aulmoast holy wite," she thaut. She aulso found that she cood make enuf munny in ate munths tu by herself tu luvly huje new juels tu. About 16% ambiguous or non-phonemic spellings look/moon, fynd/fined, moast/holy, du/buty/but, cur/ser er=3r and @r.  Er=air or err.  Before L, o = oa.

Same number of words but fewer characters 21% words unchanged.  453 characters. Wuns upon a taim, the biutifwl doter uv a greit majishan wonted mor purlz tu pwt amung hur trezherz."Lwk thru the senter uv the muun wen it iz blu," sed hur royal muther in anser tu hur kweschan."Yu mait fynd ywr haarts dezair." The feir prinsas lafd, becoz shi douted thiez wurdz. Instedd, shi iuzd hur imadjineishan, and muuvd intu the fatografy biznas, and twk pikcherz ov the muun in culer. "I perciev mowst sertanly that it iz olmowst howly hwyt,"shi thot. Shi olso found that shi cwd meik enuff muny in eit munths tu by herself 2 luvly hiuj nu juuelz tu. The words, “olso” and “by hyly” show positional spelling or one sound-sign per position rather than 1 symbol persound. always unstressed: schwa-a, schwi-y. o = {Q O A}

Fanetik I and II Spanglish FANETIK from Craig Schoonmaker (http://members.aol.com/Fanetiks) 21 % words unchanged  494 characters questionable representations in green Wuns apon a tiem, tha byuetifool dauter uv a graet majishan wontad maur perlz  tu poot amung her trezherz.  "Look tthru tha senter uv tha muen hwen it iz blu", sed her roiyal muther in aanser tu her kweschan.  "Yu miet fiend yaur hort's dizieyer." Tha fair prinses laaft, beekauz she doutad theez werdz.  Insted, she yuezd her imajinaeshan, aand muevd intu tha fatografre biznaz, aand took pikcherz uv tha muen in kuler.  "I perseev moest sertanle thaat it iz aulmoest hoele hwiet," she tthaut. She aulso found that she kood maek eenuf mune in aet muntths tu bie herself tue luvle hyuej nu juelz tue. SPANGLISH from Steve Bett 21% words unchanged.  453 characters. Wuns apon a tým [taim], the biutifwl doter uv a greit majishan wonted mor purlz tu pwt amung hur trezherz."Lwk thru the center uv the muun wen it iz blu," sed hur royal muther in anser tu hur kweschan."Yu mait fynd ywr haarts dezyr." The feir prinsas lafd, becoz shi douted thiez wurdz. Instedd, shi iuzd hur imadjineishan, and muuvd intu the fatografy biznas, and twk pikcherz ov the muun in culer. "I perciev mowst sertanly that it iz olmowst howly hwyt,"shi thot. Shi olso found that shi cwd meik enuf muny in eit munths tu by herself 2 luvly hiuj nu juualz tu. Fanetik II  what if o = au instead of ah?  la&ft ay ee ie oe ue yue aw aa -  ae e i o u w a Wuns apon a tiem, tha byuetifal dawter uv a grayt majishan wontad mor perlz  tu puut amung her trezherz.  "Luuk tthru tha senter uv tha muen hwen it iz blu", sed her roil muthar in annsar tu her kweschan.  "Yu miet fiend yor hahrt's dizieyer." Tha fair prinses laeft, bekawz she doutad theez werdz.  Insted, she yuezd her imajinayshan, aend muevd intu tha fatografre biznaz, aend took pikcherz uv tha muen in kuler.  "I perseev moest sertanle thaet it iz awlmoest hoele hwiet," she thhaut. She awlso found thaet she kood mayk enuf mune in ayt muntths tu bi herself tue luvle hyuej nu juelz tu. no stress marking except with a and y. her = h3r  er=ar.  c only used with ch  æ SSS House Stile IPA Version - see Beautiful Princess Story in ten phonemic transcriptions Add House Stile here   'ie' /i:/ is longer than 'y' /i/ even though the quality is the same. The schwi y is always unstressed.  The short i can be stressed but it cannot be a free vowel or a terminal vowel. The y's in "I really rely on Ried/Reed"  are free vowels.  /i/ and /ai/.    "I rily relai on Ried"  stress.htm Stress Marking in Spanglish Spanglish marks primary stress with schwa, a syllabic RLMN, or double consonants after a short stressed vowel. notation / stress pattern initial /1st syl. stress 2nd syllable stress Traditional Spelling abut abbot abut      abbot    abbat Traditional Spelling differ differ differ    disagree difur     postpone Traditional Spelling a vowel  avow a voul    vaul avou      avau Traditional Spelling object      verb object      noun  objeckt obbject Traditional Spelling rebel       verb rebel       noun rabel      ri'bel rebal Traditional Spelling refuse     verb refuse     noun refiuz      rifyüz reffius    reffús Traditional Spelling minute minute minat    minnit mainuut  mýnüt Spelling Pattern Frequencies  top 10 words per phoneme Truespel, Soundspel, RITE, and Fanetik all tend to use high frequency spellings unless there is an alternative that is more consistent. [ea] for [ee] is more frequent but represents other sounds as wsell as /i:/. Therefore ee is the choice. Please comment on the adequacy of the alternate writing systems. Other than showing stress, what is the advantage of Truespel? a is the choice for both /{/ and /@/ so ae was chosen for the stressed speech sound. air = aer/ær, error=errar, payer=payar ai is an alternate form of ay and is not used. pail=payl Truespel does not sound spell with o because the letter has an ambiguous reference in tradspel. {O A and Q} If you assign ah to <o> as Fanetik does, then or spells "are" and "or" has to be spelled <aur>. This is both visually and mentally disruptive. Here is a Fanetik with o = /O/. This also has some problems. Fanetik II NBC where o = aw /O:/ instead of ah /A/? long: ay ee ie oe ue yue aw aa - short: æ e i o u w schwa-a Truespel uses ae ee ie oe ue yue au aa. sae=say, Truespel does not shorten terminal vowels so there is no problem. While any marker e can be dropt, the y in essay [esae] cannot. y only a consonant before a vowel and is sometimes added to show a syllable break as in Truespel. Otherwise y = schwi-y or unstrest ee. A free vowel in a free vowel position does not have to be marked with an e. mee can be spelled me but meek cannot be shortened. we and wee are pronounced the same. Wuns apon a tiem, tha byuetifal dawter uv a grayt majishan waantad mor perlz tu pwt amung her trezherz. "Luuk tthru tha senter uv tha muen hwen it iz blu", sed her roil muthar in aensar tu her kweschan. "Yu miet fiend yor hahrt's dizieyer." Tha fair prinsas laeft, bekawz she doutad theez werdz. Insted, she yuezd her imajinayshan, aend muevd intu tha fatografre biznaz, aend took pikcherz uv tha muen in kuler. "I perseev moest sertanle thaet it iz awlmoest hoele hwiet," she tthaut. She awlso found thaet she kood mayk enuf mune in ayt muntths tu bi herself tue luvle hyuej nu juelz tu. no stress marking except with schwa-a, er, and schwi-y. her = 'h3r herder = herdar c only used with ch for best viewing intall the trebuchet-georgia-ref fonts.zip Spanglish is a phonemic transcription system based on the Saxon alphabet which makes the writing of English as consistent as Spanish or German.  The Saxon alphabet is a true alphabet:  It has a phonogram or graphic symbol for each important speech sound in the language and no code overlaps. [e.g.,  If ow is used for LOW it is not used for COW. ]  The Saxon alphabet is not perfect.  Most, but not all, of the letters in a two letter symbol [digraph] can be pronounced.  ei combines eh + ee but ie should probably be ii.  The alphabet uses er instead of the default schwa letter ar. The same sound when stressed is written <ur>: as in  surfer.  Saxon Spanglish is not a perfectly phonetic system because it uses positional spelling.  It does so because it was designed as an initial teaching medium for those primarily interested learning the traditional writing system.  An alphabet is a set or collection of sound signs or phonograms -- An alphabet is a correspondence table between graphemes and phonemes. If there is no consistent set of correspondences, there is no alphabet. Alphabets typically have a conventional order, a vestige of the time when the alphabet doubled as a number system.  Spanish Literacy to English Literacy http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/102904/lif_102904044.shtml By RAY GLASS,  AVALANCHE-JOURNAL First-grader Gabriel Reyna surprised everyone at home one day when he picked up a children's book he had never before seen and began reading to his 2-year-old sister — in English. "It was amazing," said his mother, Kristilie Reyna. "He had never been taught to read English. "Gabriel was learning to read Spanish in the Two-Way Language Enrichment Program at Harwell Elementary School. Ninety percent of the instruction during class days was in Spanish for the English-speaking youngster, yet he was able to read English. Alondra Gonzales, a third grader at Harwell Elementary, and enrolled in the Two-Way Language Enrichment Program, intently studies her lesson. "Nobody learns how to read twice," said Rosa Waters, dual-language coordinator at Harwell Elementary. "They learn to read in one language, and their brain automatically transfers all those skills into the second language. We have a lot of students reading in Spanish and, all of a sudden, they begin reading in English without even having one single class or lesson." ... This is consistent with my bicodal hypothesis.  Overlearn a simple phonemic writing system first.  Then transition.  The task of learning to read the second time is much simpler since so much of your training transfers. Schwa.htm THE ODDNESS OF SCHWA U shwaa az the unstresd /V/ sound in <up>. Paul S: The iedea that shwaa-u maecs the rieting lvc od seemz oevursensutiv tu me. Ol theez sistumz lvc od, espeshuly if a spisific letur iz usiend tu the shwaa sound. No matur wot letur. U, for shwaa, maecs a lot uv sents tu me sints /V/ is normuly speld, u, in tradspel, and shwaa iz the unstresd /V/ sound. I thinc speling, u, iz much betur than no voul. A matur uv taest? But if U uez tradspel az a gied, U wil pvt the voul in, moest uv the tiem.   shwaa iz the unstresd /V/ sound. Transcription: The iedia thaet schwaa-u mayks the rieting lwk od seemz oeversensativ tu me. Ol theez sistamz lwk aad, espeshaly if a spesifik leter iz yuezd for tha shwaa sound. No maetar wot leter.  <u> for shwaa , mayks a lot uv sents tu me sints /V/ is normaly speld u in tradspel and shwaa iz the unstresd /V/ sound.  I think speling, <u> iz much betar than no vouil.  A matar uv taest?  If yue yuez tradsepl as a gied, yue will pwt the voul in moest uv the tiem.  [Fanetik-B does not have a schwa u] David B. wrote:  It's not quite that simple. Forward slashes indicate phonemics that is not necessarily precise phonetic pronunciation which is indicated by square brackets []. What happens is that for US speakers the phonemic /V/ is phonetically [@] even in stressed positions (you don't pronounce it as a real [V]), whereas for English speakers phonemic /V/ is phonetically [V] in stressed and unstressed positions and different from schwa /@/ [@] phonetically as well as phonemically SB:  I am not sure that I agree with this.  How can you speak of a stressed /@/ as different from /V/.  DB: So whenever I see u for schwa in your writings I want to pronounce it as unstressed [V] not as [@] A similar thing happens with unstressed /I/ in US accents which also is phonetically [@] compared to the phonetic [I] of English accents rabbit [r{b@t] US v [r{bIT] UK abbot [{b@t] US v [{b@t] UK  (no difference?) For Australians /V/ is [6] and /A:/ is [6:] that is they are only differentiated by length. Both are different from schwa. http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/units/ling210-901/transcription/broad_transcription/broad_transcription.html IPA to SAMPA http://www.i-foo.com/~kturtle/misc/xsamchart.gif IPA with sound  http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/ipa/full/ipachart_vowels.html Ze: I agree with Kate that Spanglish as a language has little chance of adoption as it is but I really meant something more like IALA interlingua, ia for short.   IA uses only international words statistically derived from the major European languages.  No single person makes up words since they must adhere to the rule of three which states that the word must exist in at least three present-day languages with the exact same meaning. Links   Pictographic monofon PFM: Cyrillic [Борис]   www.spellingsociety.org www.foolswisdom.com/writingsystems.htm    Join saundspel by sending a blank email to  saundspel-subscribe@yahoogroups.com  info at www.unifon.org/saundspel  Unsubscribe by sending a blank email to  saundspel-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com  Questions: send to Dr. Bett at sbett@lycos.com   References and Links   Download Lucida Unicode    Hot Potatoes  IPA Rye's phonemic notation www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/phono.html Phonology for English btinternet.com/~ted.power/phonetics.htm First Syllable Quiz btinternet.com/~ted.power/phon05.htm Boeree's English notation http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/ lingua franca nova Online dictionary http://www.online-dictionary.biz/ · Number of Phonemes?  36  sss http://www.unifon.org/number-of-phonemes.html http://www.spellingsociety.org · Alt. Transcriptions of Harry Potter http://www.foolswisdom.com/users/sbett/4transcriptions · Phonology Quiz - Self Scoring Quiz http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/phon01.htm · Transcribe IPA back to tradspel www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/phon06a.html · English Literacy Webpages: - groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel/saundspel-intro.html pages by Dr. Valerie Yule - http:/home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas info on the spelling society - http://www.spellingsociety.org        www.spellingsociety.org/about/links.html pages by Dr. Bett:  http://www.foolswisdom/~sbett http://www.foolswisdom.com/~sbett/alternate_transcripæ old unmodified Saxon-Spanglish circa 2000. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel/files/spanglish/sax2.html bibliography on writing systems http://www.blatner.com/adam/level2/scriprefs.htm Converters: -plaintext to regularized English IPA - all at http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/staff/toby http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/staff/toby/Reformed_Spelling_in_CALL/plaintext.html ALC Soundspel - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel/files/soundspel Cut Spelling - http://www.spellingsociety.org/ keyword: cut spelling http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j1/cutspelng1.html Schemes ENgliS - a rapid way to keyboard phonemic English. schwa-a,AEYOU = long vowels http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel/files/en/englis-chart.html englis-k.html - http://www.wyrdplay.org/SteveBett/ENgliS-ref.html Spanglish - an orthography for English as consistent as Spanish http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel/files/spanglish/sp-3d.html S A M P A http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/english-uni.htm S A M P A and IPA - http://www.i-foo.com/~kturtle/misc/xsamchart.gif I P A - http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/ipa/full/ IPA with sound:  http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/ipa/full/ipachart_vowels.html 14 vowels in 9 notations - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel/files/GP-tables/14v-9notations Fanetics  a schwa a system http://members.aol.com/Fanetiks Fonts - go to www.unifon.org and search with following keywords Unifon font - or unifont [find at the above URL] Georgia Ref Trebuchet MS - www.discusgroup.co.uk/trebuchet.htm Unicode Pronunciation Keys http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Pronunciation_key Phonetics - graphic representation http://ds.unil.ch/ling/english/phonetique/api32-eng.html#symb_inverted_cap_r full animation in 2 views: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html# MIT course in linguistics IPA popup http://cf.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/new-website/LL-WorkingDirs/forms/character-input-form1/ipa-pop-up-1.html?ID=SubjectKeyword IPA  http://www.alt-usage-english.org/ipa/nutshell.shtml http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/ipa/full/ IPA sound files - http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/ipa/full/ipachart_cons_pulm.html SAMPA to IPT http://www.i-foo.com/~kturtle/misc/xsamchart.gif IPA with sound http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/ipa/full/ipachart_vowels.html Dialect Survey - http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/maps.php Misspelling - http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html Word frequencies - 2 types: dictionary - text sample - e.g., COBUILD http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel/files vocabulary words by years of schooling: 1:300, 2:500, 3:700,.... Old sayings - new spellings [interactive spelling game] http://www.saispel.com/HomepageSaispel/Unterseiten/Frameseiten/international-frame.html Dictionaries with pronunciation guide spelling - www.m-w.com - dictionary.cambridge.org www.dictionary.com - www.yourdictionary.com - http://www.bartleby.com/61/ Truespel Book One: Analysis of the Sounds (Phonemes) of USA English http://www.1stbooks.com/cgi-bin/1st?partner~1st|type~6|Data1~16593 Truespel reverse converter:  Insert a truespelled word - ROED - get back the tradspelling http://qs92.pair.com/jsl/cgi-bin/db1/truespel.php3?tword=kumyyuenitee The history of English phonemes: Old English and Middle English. http://alpha.furman.edu/~wrogers/phonemes/ Regularity with 56 rules for 85% of English spelling http://www.zompist.com/spell.html#20 Great vowel shift - GVS http://alpha.furman.edu/~mmenzer/gvs/what.htm Chaucer page at Havard http://www.microsoft.com/office/using/newsletter.asp Pop-up blocker http://companion.yahoo.com/ Try Y! Toolbar BETA with Anti-Spy http://us.rd.yahoo.com/slv/beta/*http:/beta.toolbar.yahoo.com Manchester Converter peɪst ðə tekst ju: wɔnt rəfɔ:məŋ ən hɪr! http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/staff/toby/Reformed_Spelling_in_CALL/plaintext.html

saundspel page http://tinyurl.com/2sgy4

LINKS  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel/files/GP-tables/14vowels
Here is the chart showing the 14 pure vowels and as many diphthongs and combinations:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel/files/GP-tables/33v16-ENgliS.gif 

40 character IPA chart
The added characters are to handle rhotic and non-rhotic speech.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel/files/GP-tables/40-ipa-16c.gif

40 IPA phonograms plus 20 combinations
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel/files/GP-tables/40-symbols-16.gif

Here is my alternate augmented alphabet for English: Pictographic Monoline Fonetic
or PMF. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel/files/GP-tables/40ipa-pmf.gif

14 pure vowels in 9 notations
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel/files/GP-tables/14v9n.gif 

36 pure vowels [14 pure vowels, 22 pure consonants] 48 sound-signs in chart.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel/files/GP-tables/48saxon-fonograms.gif

Tense and Lax Vowels     Phonics and other key terms defined

  ritespel-blk.jpg   www.ritespel.org

Converters
Unifon - http://66.41.60.21/UFLookup/UFXlate.htm
This remarkable converter also changes the font and handles 1000 word pages.
Unfortunately it only works with Internet Explorer - Not Netscape or Mozilla.
ALC Soundspel - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saundspel/files/soundspel
RITEspel [none available]
CutSpelling - http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/staff/toby
IPA - all at http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/staff/toby
http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/staff/toby/Reformed_Spelling_in_CALL/plaintext.html

Truespel - www.foreignword.com/dictionary/truespel/transpel.htm
truespel reverse dictionary - http://qs92.pair.com/jsl/cgi-bin/db1/truespel.php3?tword=bie