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And cork and work and card and ward And font and front and word and sword, And do and go and thwart and cart - Come, come, I've hardly made a start! -Richard Lederer |
Just luk ðem ûp - and
gu:s and chu:z
And ko:rk and w'rk and ca:rd and wo:rd And font and frûnt and w'rd and so:rd, And du: and go' and thwo:rt and ca:rt - Kûm, kûm, `Iv ha:rdli meid â sta:rt! -Rich'rd Led'r'r |
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Curious solutions tu the problems ov English orthografy: All attempts at consistent spelling change the look of 60% of the words This accounts for the strangeness of phonemic spelling
The Problem About 50% of the words in English can't be spelt without memorizing
the dictionary. Students can usually spell words in a foreign language
better than they can spell in English. (See
article by C. Upward in Reading Research Journal)
How many ways can you spell a word in English? Orthographic options for dictionary spellings. The Problem with Spelling A little history on how English came to be the way it is. Irregularity in English Spelling 6,000 examples Excerpt from Breaking the Spell (1912) Six Axioms From Dekaspel to Unispel Valerie Yule Spelling
as a Social Invention The reduced spelling proposal
Pidjins
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Lessons in simplification
George Bernard Shaw on Spelling Reform.
The SpellRight explanation - Problem- Solution The Solutions note: remote links may not work Cut Spelng (CS) is a simplifyd, partialy regulrizd orthografy wich omits thre categris of misleadng letrs: the silent or redundant letters, the schwa or unstressed /uh/ sound when not the first syllable, and double letters. All clipped spelling proposals do this. CS also includes some substitutions: j for /j/, y for /ai/ when spelled "igh". [e.g. high = hy], f for ph. Removing the redundant letters and silent letters facilitates writing and typing, and can improve pronunciation and reading. Cut Spelling - in depth. Phased approach to a cut spelling reform (CS lite). Why bother? Simplified Spelling Society Page. New Follick EuroSpel - an
enhanced Portuguese inspired orthography for English based on IPA and continental
sound values. Th'is iz an egzamp'l 'v Nu Folik. NF
EuroSpel iz a fu'ly regiularyzd orthogra'fi hwich substitu:ts
a consistent saund syn for eni misli:ding wun.
Key features of Nu Folik: Schwapostrophe, Extenders: The key to simplified spelling is a seperate symbol for the obscure central vowel known as schwa because it is unrepresented in the English writing system. In NF terminal syllabic consonants mark the schwa, elsewhere it is marked by an apostrophe. [a'] also represents an unstressed /uh/ as in a'go. Sound Spell is another IPA EuroSpel phonemic writing system for English. Medland's Sounds Spell Right A phonemic system for English similar to WES [World English Spelling], TrueSpel, & New Spelling. NuSpel An IPA type notational system that uses a new font to create the IPA type symbols. Letter/font chart EnglSpel A partially phonemic system for English designed by a Dutch linguist. Alt.Spell A scheme that uses positional spelling to approximate TO. Inglish A nice page describing a notational scheme similar to New Spelling. ANJeL eliminates the dual redundant character set and uses the capital or upper case letters for the sounds that are represented in TO with digraphs: how/Hc, thin/tiN, church/cuRc, hoe/HO ANJeL The Lighter Side of Spelling Reform Staged Reform - remote links only Comic Relief: Mark
Twain on simplified spelling. Second source.
Humor attributed to Twain.
Related Issues Pidjins as a model for spelling reform, Pidjins & Creoles Handwriting Repair & Reform A legible cursive writing style without the Palmer loops by Kate G. Lojikons (logical icons)- Pictographic
Monofon - letters that look and sound just like their name
The Origin of the Alphabet - Pictography, Rebus Writing, Ancient Scripts. The sounds of English - The vowel trapezoid - Click and listen format. Six Axioms The Schwa - the most frequent
sound in the English language which can be represented by any vowel letter.
An unstressed central vowel.
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A Short Reading List
on Spelling Reform
and related topics
1. New Follick is a refinement of Follick (1945). It is also very close to Lindgren's Phonetic A (1969). New Follick can be considered an IPA-ASCII script because it employs only ASCII characters and because there is a one-to-one correspondence with the IPA symbol set. Since IPA uses a special font, ASCIIbets such as NF are needed to show pronunciation in text documents. Unlike other ASCIIbet proposals, NF looks good in print and can be handwritten with ease. NF uses continental sound values and could be readily understood by those literate in Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian. NF tries to be a bridge to TO but the allegiance is to IPA and Euro-Spelling: /ei/ = e: (Follick ei) not A or AE, /i:/ = i: (Follick ie) not EE. /ai/ = ai or `i (which looks like y), not IE (Follick ai). /ou/=o' not OE (Follick ou). /u:/ = u: not oo or ue (Follick oo) 2. Monofon - is a notational system that has no digraphs. The name means one and only one symbol for each phon or sound. To represent 40 sounds with a single character, at least 18 new letters are required. In this respect, it is similar to John Malone's Unifon (1959). There are two monofons: keyboard and pictographic. Like Unifon, Pictographic Monofon requires a new augmented font. Keyboard Monofon, doesn't. It does away with caps and assigns the 18 new sounds to shifted characters ( /ei/ = A, /I:/=E, /ai/ = I … ). Vowel notation in keyboard Monofon (1994) is amost identical to Beach's ANJeL (1996). Pictographic monofon character shapes resemble their names: [a] avian, [q] ax, [ É ]ox /ahx/, [^]up, ['] acute /uh/, [é ]flag/valley, [ ] spear tip/ [¯ ]digit. [completed PMF letter matrix]
3. Menu Spel is a refinement of the pronunciation guides found in many cookbooks and exotic menus. It is supposed to be unambiguous and intuitive to those schooled in the traditional English orthography. e.g., toh-may-toh or tuh-mah-toh. Vowel sounds are represented by two or more letters. ay, ee, ah-ee, oh, yoo. This reduces ambiguity but makes the script impractical as anything more than a pronunciation guide. In this respect, Menu Spell is much like True Spell. [pizza pie = peet-zuh pah-ee]. [ Theater = thee-yay-ter ]
4. DBLspel (positional spelling) is an attempt to achieve a closer approximation to TO by allowing more than one sound per spelling and more than one spelling per sound. The result is not phonemic, but it is systematic and fully predictable. The positional spelling can be reproduced by a computer or by anyone who understands the rules. Cut NF is a mild type of positional spelling where redundant markers are left out or clipped. [si: = si *see]. Word patterns generated by Cut NF are very close to those in Cut Spelling. John J. Reilly's Alt.Script is the most serious attempt to mimic English TO by having a different grapheme or digraph for the initial, medial, or terminal position in a word. [ Highly = hyly ] This word shows 2 of the 3 sounds for [y] in Alt.S.
Lighter stuf
- a book of Spelling Games:
- Vocalic Frolic - fill in words that match a pattern in the vowel quadrilateral
- Spell Check humor How to Speak Southern
- a Simpl Speling calendar,
- th humorus pieces by
- Mark Twain
- Grandgent
- Selections from Spelling on the Web
- A fixed date for Internationl English Spelling Day.
- Internationl English Spelling (Intrspel) for evryday use
- Intrspel How other countries simplify the spelling of English loan words
- Bob Brown's Bibliography - Bob Brown's article
- Examples of languages whose writing systems allow one to predict the pronunciation (or at least the segmentals) from the spelling
- Finnish
- Icelandic
- Dutch
- Portuguese
- Italian
- Spanish
The Plan
The following journals have many relevant articles which are not listed below, but will appear in Short Reading List 4. Articles from psychological and educational research journals will appear in Short Reading List 3. Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society (UK) from 1986 Spelling Progress Bulletin (California) from 1960-1983. Spelling reform: a comprehensive survey . 1982. Ed Newell Tune, is an anthology of articles from Spelling Progress Bulletins. English Today (Cambridge, UK) often has interesting and relevant articles. |
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