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... Paul I believe the magic-e is one of the dumbest devices devised, and certainly one we can do without. The use of digraphs for the long vowels makes any ...
... Friends: I thoroughly agree with the need to accelerate literacy, and to make spelling and pronunciation more predictable. I also believe, however, that...
Friends: I fear at times in our efforts to promote acceptable respell systems we fail to look at the area of scientific technology and its literature. I once...
My Friends: I show the bobdot conversion of Gus's little paragraph. I think it is worth a little study as we contemplate the subject of coalescence in the...
... I lukd at it b't did'nt get much out ov it.. ... Ok - as fols: egls This proposal makes use of abbreviation methodology benefits to the greatest extent...
... I've always thought in cases like this, where sounds are pronounced by some and not by others, that it is better to include them in the spelling. For those...
Hi Alan, I pronounce the th in clothes if I pronounce the word slowly, Same with the 'd' in grandma. We are in agreement with the showing of the complete...
... I've gotta admit, I was an adult before I realized that most people didn't pronounce that l in <calm>. I learned to read so early in life that I have a lot...
Dear Paul, Are you implying that I am speaking English in a ridiculous way when I pronounce the 'th' in 'clothes'? ah me! I even put the 'i' in 'family' when...
... I'd s yes if d sound is stresd. ... Yes, fr me. I hir d shwa sound der.. ... Thanks. ... J'st put evrythiq b't d apostr'fes in cap'tls. ... I dnt n,...
... Aside from the first two (which I'll describe below), I have egls, which is my version of Texting. Inglish1 comes next, which is fully phonemic, similar to...
I should've clarified what I wrote about the percentage below. It should ... including 74% of the 26% of the words having two or more syllables. Of the 15...
... I have a section called Determination where I compare all my systems to see how well each does against the others in meeting my 3 goals: Affinity ...
Re: Does anyone pronounse "clothes" cloez: I'm inclined to reply, "Doesn't everyone?" I so rarely hear anyone say "cloethz" that I'm astonished to hear the...
... It might not come out as you can see above (with the styles missing from the way I typed them before). It's a real pain to type, which is why I asked Alan ...
Defnitly kloethz. ________________________________ From: saundspel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:saundspel@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of George Lahey Sent: 04...
Folks- Several days ago I announced that I had made a major change in the Inglish website, http://www.inglish.us/ streamlining it for easier reading. I've...
... I looked at it. It looks to be a good site. I just don't go for your long spelling, tho.. Gus George Lahey wrote: Folks- Several days ago I announced that...
... The book I have is a small paperback, first published in 1988, and having but 288 pages.. From what you say, it looks like the English are getting more...
George, You have a very nice website and a highly consistent notation. This does not mean that you will win many converts here;-) There is a house stile issue...
Paul and George, The man in the street is fairly clear about a particular choice. Do you prefer sistum or sistem? Do you prefer brite or bright? Their...
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vangogh/555/Spell/spel-inv.htm Cut spelling Savings (written in cut spelling) Th secnd thing one notices is that CS is som...
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