... spelling ... spelling. This ... to explain ... will be ... Ed ... you allow ... Steve, I think the situation with unstressed short i and schwa shows that...
... wrote: <> <> I did not write the following: <> <> <<Dan wrote: /O/ as in caught (if you don't rhyme it with cot) <> <</o/ as in rode (but not a diphthong...
For those of us who use the Yahoo site it is not possible to access any file attachment unless they are put in the file section or sent directly to us David ...
Hi Steve, Regarding the subject article. I went back to three different drugstores but found that the tabloid I was looking at was apparently last weeks copy....
Hi Tom Thanks for the tip. What I would really like to see in the autocorrect feature is an option to have the replacement take place as soon as the characters...
Hi Alan, NBC English would pronounce acid and agile as asid and ajul (SRS3) This would be in accordance with my Webster's New World Dictionary. (first...
If Congress really does have (or plans to have) a "Language Complexity Reduction Program," they've kept the secret *very* well-hidden. ;-) Yours for better...
Hi Gang, I would like to announce that due to the skill of Alan Beale, and his generosity, there now exists a Phondot conversion dictionary of approximately...
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Hi Bob, I don’t think autocorrect can be formatted to do a phoneme at a time, just whole words. But if it could I see no reason why it couldn’t convert...
David, You should be able to open links to other servers. You will not get any images or sound files that are attached to or embedded in the email since...
Hey, all, this is Charles. Some of you may remember me, but I've been away for a while. In my time away, I've gotten a new outlook on spelling reform, and...
Alan, Please provide some examples. Where is the problem with acid and agile. You can derive your spelling from two options. 'a-s&d 'a-sid 'a-j&l, 'a-"jIl ...
... According to Longman's, acid is most likely /{sId/ and agile is most likely /{dZ@l/ . So even though these sounds are very hard to distinguish, and many...
... Bob, I listened to m-w.com and the lady says "agile" like ajil. I would have expected "ajool" where "ool" is as in "wool". But I wouldn't expect "ajul" ...
Hi Tom I have long defined terminal 'ul' as = 'ûl'. û as in 'pût'. (or short for eul) So I guess we are as usual in accordance, or nearly so.) Bob Boden ...
Interesting word - from m-w.com syn·a·loe·pha Variant(s): or syn·a·le·pha /"si-n&-'lE-f&/ Function: noun Etymology: New Latin, from Greek synaloiphE,...
... a ... that ... those ... merging /@/ and /V/ works for those accents the pronounce both as [@] ie not English, Australian, etc Northern England /V/ is...
Bob and Alan, The unstressed syllable in believe is normally represented bi'lEv or bI-'li:v because most system lack a schwi symbol. If they had it they would...
Charles, You should join euro-english group since they are all of the same opinion: English should us international spelling and be based on Latin symbol sound...
Hi Kate, I tried to make it clear to the group that the type of magazine or tabloid in which I saw the article does not inspire confidence, but it was kind of...
Webster PG spelling woujld be 'a-sid or 'a-s&d <asid> is consistent with this but not in accordance. To be in accordance you would have to mark the unstressed...
Steve, I respectfully disagree - [acid] and [agile] have different pronunciations in my dialect (idiolect?). The primary cause seems to be that the terminal L ...
Steve, Written English is relatively uniform, the Americans are making all the others conform to the Yankee way, but pronunciation is changing all the time....
<<If Congress really does have (or plans to have) a "Language Complexity <<Reduction Program," <<they've kept the secret *very* well-hidden. <<;-) It's a...
... Steve, I don't know why foespeleeng ending in "u" is so strange to represent the sound of "uh" as in run,up,tub at the end of a word. Other foespeleengz...
... bI-'li:v ... use it ... but refrains ... exception ... I've never seen the "schwi" discussed anywhere but on this group, and I have a doubt or two that...
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