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The Saundspel discussion group was originally set up to build a machine readable IPA analog for transcribing English speech. SAMPA* was available but not designed as a writing system. ENgliS , Unigraf, and similar notations are about as close as we have come to finding an easily read and typed way to represent 40+ sounds with a 26 character (ASCII) keyboard. An improved orthography for World English (see euro-english) remains a key but not the sole concern of this group. [ more -includes 20 links]

SAMPA links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-SAMPA
http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/langdoc/EGA/Formats/Sampa/sampa.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/x-sampa

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English spelling is unphonetic in a good way.... This was posted on Alt.Language....Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā English spelling is not unphonetic in any bad way. It is unphonetic in just the right way, like French. Consider Posted - Mon Nov 30, 2009 6:34 am	Steve Bett stbett Offline Send Email
No agreement on what makes a letter surplus While there is currently no complete agreement on essential and surplus letters, I think there would be a few that everyone would agree were surplus. Posted - Sun Nov 29, 2009 10:07 pm	Steve Bett stbett Offline Send Email
Adding easier spellings to the dictionary Adding easier spellings to the dictionary Why isn't that our goal? Of course we may first have to authorize an academy and that will take some doing. Posted - Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:25 pm	Steve Bett stbett Offline Send Email
Spelling Rules - i before e Ā Ā Spelling Rules see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_before_E_except_after_C BBC: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/talk/questions/spelling-rules Ā The Posted - Sun Nov 29, 2009 7:38 pm	Steve Bett stbett Offline Send Email
Books on the English Language Books on linguistics and the English language Ā Ā Changing English (edited by D. Graddol, D.Leith, J. Swann, M. Rhys & J. Gillen) Using English (edited by J. Posted - Sun Nov 29, 2009 6:30 am	Steve Bett stbett Offline Send Email
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