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Cut Spelng (CS) is a simplifyd, partialy regulrized orthografy wich omits thre categris of misleadng letrs:Othr rules simplify th use of capitl letrs and apostrofes.
- Letrs irelevnt to pronunciation (eg, ‘debt’ becoms CS ‘det’).
- Letrs standng for shwa with l, m, n, r (eg, ‘bottle’, ‘bottom’, ‘button’, ‘butter’ becom ‘bottl’, ‘bottm’, ‘buttn’, ‘buttr’); simlrly in inflections and som sufixs (eg,‘waitd’, ‘waitng’, ‘fishs’, ‘eatbl’, ‘edbl’).
- Most dubld consnnts ar ritn singl (eg, ‘bottl’, ‘bottm’, ‘buttn’, ‘buttr’, ‘accommodation’ becom ‘botl’, ‘botm’, ‘butn’, ‘butr’, ‘acomodation’).
Aditionly, thre rules of letr-substitution aply:
Readrs unfamilir with CS ar advised to ignor unusul spelngs at first and read as fluently as posbl. With a litl practis, CS becoms esy.
- Th sound /f/ is spelt f (eg, ‘fotograf’, ‘enuf’).
- Th sound of j is spelt j (eg, ‘jymnast’, ‘jinjr’, ‘juj’).
- ig pronounced as long y is spelt y (eg, ‘sigh’, ‘sight’, ‘sign’ becom ‘sy’, ‘syt’, ‘syn’).
Ful infrmation on CS can be found in th ‘Cut Spelling Handbook’ (ISBN 0 9506391 5 X), wich explains th rules, provides extensiv exrcises for lernrs, and includes a dictionry for lookng up CS spelngs. It can be obtaind for £10 (cheks to be made out to th Simplified Spelling Society) from:
Chris Upward,
61 Valentine Road,
BIRMINGHAM
B14 7AJ.
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Comment:
Cut Spelling eliminates some of the worst examples of traditional spelling but it is not entirely systematic or consistent. Consistent spelling would change 60% of the words in a passage of text. There is still ambiguity with respect to spelling and pronunciation. Cut Spelling, however, is much more phonemic than TO and does eliminate about 80% of the problems that new learners have with the traditional orthography (TO) and it does so without disturbing the appearance of most words. Since CS retains the general "look and feel" of traditional English word patterns, it is easier to read than any phonemic transcription of English.
The phonemic notations closest to CS are InterSpel, New Follick and Chekt Speling. NF is very compact and, except where the symbol is not readily available, uses IPA notation. It is very easy to convert standard IPA notation to Nu Folik (or Chkt Spl.) using pronunciation guides such as Jones, D. The Pronunciation of English, Longman's Pronunciation Dictionary by Wells, or Longman Dictionary of American English. This is because these notations simply substitute ASCII characters, usually digraphs, for the special symbols used in IPA. eg, schwa [
] becomes [a'].
New Follick looks much like respelled English words do in other languages. This makes English in NF notation easier to read for those familiar with continental sound values. Nu Folik iz veri i:zi tu ri:d for tho'z not a'kust'm tu English saund valiuz. Chekt Speli3 i.z a'baut x seim.
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