web hosting short URLs photo sharing

Spelling Reformers, orthographers, and those interested in simplifying the task of learning to spell in English have needed a place to go that would list the top ten spelling links. This is now closer to realization with the posting of the following page. http://pages.whowhere.com/community/sbett/spel-link.html

The informal simplified spelling mailing list is doing fine but it does not invite others to participate or allow them to subscribe and unsubscribe at will. A replacement for spelling@coollist has been found. It is a more than an automated mailing list. It is also a Web-Board which allows those who subscribe the ability to add to 12 different discussions. This site will contains the beginnings of a FAQ (list of frequently asked questions with answers) and a GLOSSARY.

The Delphi Forum compliments the informal mailing list by providing a space to archive important messages by category. All of the discussions on schwa, for example, can be grouped under one heading. Currently, it contains 12 discussion categories. When you have something you want archived, please use this site. www.delphi.com/spelreform

Categories

• Chat-General Disucssion
 
1. This category can be eliminated
• Newsletter Preview
• Progress
 
1. In what ways are we better off than in 1910?, 1960?
• Phoneme Inventory
 
1. 12 pure vowels, 21 significant v-phonemes,
2. 22 pure consonants, 24 significant c-phonemes
3. Phonemes Freq. Missed: shwa, shwer, ng,
• Grapheme Correspondences
 
1. /i:/ /ei/ and /ai/
• Alternative Notations
• Schwa (shwa)
• Graphic R Endings
• Lexical Spelling
• Unifonic - Diaphonic
 
1. Consistent alphabetical spelling does not change speech habits
• ASCII notations and augmented character sets
 
1. Can numbers be sound signs?
2. Can an ascii characater be a diacritic?
• History: Anglo Saxon spellings
 
1. Re-establishing old spelling conventions
• Utopian - Practical Reform
 
1. If a key is required, the notation is impractical
• Glossary -FAQ

Top Ten List

1. George Lahey, author of the recently published PV6, has upgraded his website at

www.tfb.com/~glahey/inglish.htm
www.cyberg8t.com/gnmlahey/indes.htm
2. Paul Cunningham has upgraded his site and changed the name Spellright to Spelriet. www.meritadvisors.com/spelriet/

 
3. Alan Mole's page has more than just a copy of the original BTRSPL orthographic converter. www.diac.com/~entente/btrspl.html
4. Steven Bird's automated BTRSPL converter has been moved. It can now be found at www.ldc.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/sb/orthography/convert.cgi
5. Valerie Yule's bibliography of spelling-related books and articles can be found at http://pages.whowhere.com/community/sbett/splbib.html
6. Valerie's home page is at
7. The Uniform English Society has upgraded its website at http://geocities.com/athens/oracle/4012 Uniform English
8. The page on Fanetik spelling has added a dictionary and an explanation in Spanish. (fa'netik in CCS where a'=schwa) rey = rae, Juan=hwaan, norte=naute
9. John Reilly has added a few new features to his page at http://pages.prodigy.com/VBDS39A/

 
10. Shaw on Language - Preface to the Miraculous Birth of Language

 
11. Mispellings http://east.isx.com/~schnitzi/misspellings.html  The

 
12. http://www.sentex.net/~mmcadams/spelling.html  spelling test

 
13. New scheme http://www.angelfire.com/wa/derludwig/englyc.html  Brian  Has

 

Nuspel is corresponds closely to IPA notation. Included are 9 symbols that are not part of the ASCII character set. 3: is missing.  It doesn't appear to be a minimized set of phonemes.

aw seems to be missing.

Nuspel has graphemes for most of the basic phonemes and two graphemes for two of them [ei, and ai].

Chekt	Free	Diphthongs	r-combinations
ae     a.     a	a:      a      a	ai      'y     ai	ar      yr
e       e.     e	3:     'r      ?	ei      ei     ei,	er
i        i.      i	i:       i       i	oi      oi     oi	ir
o      o.	o:     o      ?	ou     o'     o	or
u      u.	u:      u      u	iu      iu      u	ur
^      u'     ^	a'	au    au     au	aur