... No, we *did* have "Spanish-sounding" letter names ("ah, beh, ceh, deh," and so on: nouns by definition, as the names of the things) until the Great Vowel...
VITA spelling class for adults http://www.dailyworld.com/html/862CB3B8-F02D-41D1-9BE8-86D589BC6E28.shtml 1st posted on September 27, 2003 By Steve Bett "There...
Bob, Why do you think that over 80% of the lexicographers recognize schwa as a phoneme? --Steve Hi Steve, I have been unable to think of any word pairs that...
Hi Steve, That is a good listing. We may be closing in on a standard. I do have a couple of corrections. Please review the ENglis, Unifor, and Jolly...
... schwa as a ... meaning ... difference ... about 100 ... V is not a mid central vowel, it is an open-mid back vowel it is the unrounded pair of O ...
Hi Steve, I am still looking for that minimal pair that have a different meaning if 'u' is used as schwa. I am unconcerned what the lexicographers recognize....
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... Thanks for your agreement Bob. I took off your SRS as it's a minimal respell. But looking at your SRS3 above, I see you didn't do the cuts I did below...
... is about ... In ... it is ... are not used ... www.unifon.org/uu-29ways.html also ... shorter ... I agree Cut Spelng is way better than TS. But you do...
The Vowel of NBC English in six notations SRS - Sampa - tradspel ENgliS Unifon Jolly Short Vowels: pat, p{t, (cat, matter) pqt pat pat/pqt pet, pEt, (met, red)...
Hi Bob, Here is a site that talks about r-vowels. They may be the NBC sounds quite different from the British? There are 2 IPA r-vowels. One for the stressed...
... need to be tested. Testing may be a disease, not a cure. In most testing [kids are] just regurgitating facts. Perhaps it would be better if the time were...
Gus, Georg claims to have surveyed not several hundred but over 30,000 people with a clear majority preferring accent marked long vowels. I think this is...
Ze wrote: In RITE we dont faver one dialect, we faver 2 standerd axents: RP and GA. If we faver only RP, no american wil be in this bote. If we faver only GA,...
I always thought that diphthongs, triphthongs, etc had to be long vowels because of their many components, yet the Tulane group makes the r-vowel in...
Hi Steve, I agree with most of what you say in your message. The terrible deterioration in reading capability we have seen in today's children is symptomatic...
Ze, Do we have a list of words that are pronounced differently in the US and UK? bother father Potter would be one group: bahth&r, fahth&r, Paht&r in...
Hi Gus, I fear that I have to say that Ingliz is not very easy for me to read. I can read it, but then I can read almost anything. I don't believe that the use...
Bob, The other day, when my granddaughter (who just started school) wanted to wrestle, I asked her how she would spell that word. "That's easy," she said,...
Tom, Thanks for the reference below: [follow the "up tread" to locate the origianl reference] Truespel would be a type of synthetic phonics program, I...
... This then would make the case for accented letters even better. :-) ... It looks like my last sentence wasn't clear. I meant just the last part of your...
... Thanks for your comments above, Bob. In my response to Steve's message, I mentioned I've done away with the 'ð' symbol, replacing it with 'th'. I've even...
There have been a couple of books titled THE CASE FOR SPELLING REFORM. I think we need a short one titled: THE CASE AGAINST TRADITIONAL SPELLING. This is one...
David, Your description matches the referenced IPA chart with SAMPA equivalents. However, I have seen plenty of descriptions of V as a central vowel. In...
... rooms. I allways tipe uzeng my currant verzhon of MORE speling. Offen, mor offen than not, somwun involvd in the chat dismisses all that I say on the...
Paul wrote: Offen, mor offen than not, somwun involvd in the chat dismisses all that I say on the grownds that I d'n't even no how tu spel. Gus wrote: That's...
Steve, This site http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/units/ling210- 901/transcription/broad_transcription/broad_transcription.html for Australian pronunciation it has...
... Thanks Pete, for the below. It sure does seem like a lot of work tho, compared with using the Icelandic type. There you don't need numbers. Once you have...
... dismisses ... prestige to ... enough to ... You have ... refer to ... the ... I didn't know Paul had that problem too. I answered to Pete in the RITE ...
Gus, We still have to come to some agreement in the spell4lit group as to what accents go with what sounds. Are we going to have a one symbol schwa or a ...
