Valerie, If the á is being corrupted by email programs, then we are not as close to a solution as I thought. á = A in [all ASCII] ENgliS so there is still a...
... minority ... Irish ... language ... could ... <It's gud tu see yu admit yu make sum mistakes tu.. ;-) Was I mistaken. I have no problem admitting to being...
<> What I cannot accept is an attitude shown by some Americans that we <> should follow US spelling unquestioning without having our say about <> what we see...
<Dan, <That´s right, the US has no official language however many of the <States have declared english to the the official language of the <state. <Tim Thanks...
<Dan, <It looks like I let yu off tu eesy belo... <I realy du fynd it hard tu beleev the Brits ar so foolish (tu use a kynd werd) as tu make a langwij...
<I think it shur wud be beter for us if English was oficial thru-out the US. Then we cud finaly get sumthing dun about its speling <reform. Lawsoots good be...
Thank you Steve for this insightful and splendidly researched article. Dan ... Language diversity is a recent phenomenon in the United States, which the...
<Thanks Dave, <Actually I dissagree that "b" is voiced. It's a plosive. How can a plosive <be voiced? The voice part comes after the b. If you use b at the...
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Gus, thanks for your comments. I think it shur wud be beter for us if English was oficial thru-out the US. Then we cud finaly get sumthing dun about its...
Thanks Dave, That's a good site. I've seen it before and thought about it. Just don't believe all of it. Try saying a voicless "b". No problem. The mouth ...
Dan, The praise goes to Jim Crawford and Einar Haugen ... but I am glad you found it insightful. -- Steve Happy New Year Thank you Steve for this insightful...
Dan, I would say it's a green elephant. On the other hand you would research it, say it's not in the definition and thus cannot be a green elephant because no...
... Â ... Angloromani, ... used ... spoken ... I ... conducted ... in. Â Yu then beleev the vast majority of English speekers shud gladly pay for the...
... Â ... about ... follow ... conquer, I ... an ... Â Yea, maybe in England, but his troops in Iraq ar duing what the Americans tel them tu du. It wud be...
... Â ... the US. ... cud be ... legal ... us an ... Â Wel, I'm no lawyer. I onely went tu law scool for a yir. (Duing that, besides my job, 6 kids and reel...
Hi Dan, Thanks for the comments. ... Bob replies: One family member comes from Oklahoma. The others from Cleveland, Ohio originally. We have all lived in...
Dear Bob, thank you for eu = /U/. In the word ode could I use /oEud/ for /oUd/? Could /oEu/ be thought of as a triphthong? Could /eu/ be thought of as a ...
Hi David, ... Bob replies: In SRS: fahther In SRS3: fother ... the e of pet and i of pet which you have further up? Bob replies: The 'e' in 'err' is the...
Hi Dan, About a year ago I spoke with a man who lived on my street. He was of Japanese extraction. He had two children (about 10 and 12) who were going to...
Hi Dennis, In regards to the use of 'eu' for the sound of the 'u' in 'put'. There are many words which begin with 'neur...': neural, neuralgia, neuritis,...
Hi Tom, I think we are in pretty good agreement with regards to the sounds of NBC English with the exception of 'eer' for 'ir'. Also I think my specification...
Thanks Bob, I think "car" would be a bad keyword for anything. It has the "ah" sound in it , so it would be "kaar" in truespel. One would wonder should "car"...
... we should follow US spelling unquestioning without having our say ... . ... their respective phonemes among the words. ... I'm glad you noted 'some'...
Hi Tom, How about 'part', 'dart', 'cart', 'bar'. 'car' could be 'cor' but I chicken out. But 'o' as in 'pot' is very common, as you have told me. Specifying...
Hi Bob, My sounds are NBC, and when I say part, or harvest, there is very little sound of /3/. It is as though the sound of /A/ in the word part is in a...
... that ... of ... the ... Any more than the Americans can agree amongst themselves. :-) Either we spell shared phonemes identically which means on occasion ...
There are several cases where different spellings produce quite similar sounds. ir and eer is one of them. meerer truespel, mirrer SRS I think we are in...
