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36546
David, Most of us can't select pdf text to copy/paste. It prevents that. But if you can, how come? You must have something I don't have. ~taam...
Tom Zurinskas
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Jul 1, 2006
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36547
Steve, So why is that not a pronunciation guide spelling per dialect? It sounds like they went through great pains to make it so. It would be less of a ...
Tom Zurinskas
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36548
Tom Kennedy didn't teach linguistics for a living, but he demonstrated in an episode of the game show _Password_Plus_ that some English speakers do distinguish...
James Vipond
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Jul 1, 2006
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TOM: So why is that not a pronunciation guide spelling per dialect? Tom, It probably gets close to a pronunciation guide for each dialect. Pitman would focus...
Steve Bett
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Jul 1, 2006
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AKA, Thanks for your comments. expertise = eksp&rtees, /eksp@`ti:s/ exist = eksist or egzist example = egzampl x is either voiced (gz) or unvoiced (ks). You...
Steve Bett
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Jul 1, 2006
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36551
Some? Millions of us pronounce them differently. Only in North America are the pronounced the same. And not in all of NA. David...
David Barrow
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Jul 1, 2006
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Tom, What pdf reader are you using? I use acrobat reader 7.0. For the whole document go to edit then select all. For parts of the document you need to change...
David Barrow
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Jul 1, 2006
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... whole document go to edit then select all. For parts of the document you need to change the hand tool to the select tool. Go to tools - basic - select...
David Barrow
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Jul 1, 2006
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36554
... vowel ... The chart is correct but my interpretation was not. It should have been pull hoop, not pool hoop. [14words-u.gif] Does anyone have a better list...
Steve Bett
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Jul 1, 2006
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36555
... above. You have two symbols, ai and ay representing the same sound..? Also, I don't understand your hth, which certainly doesn't 'stay with current...
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Jul 1, 2006
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... Could you give an example or two of what you're talking about in the variation of the pronunciation of "h"? I'm unable to think of any English words at...
Alan Beale
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Jul 1, 2006
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Welcome to the SaundSpel list on Yahoo Groups! This discussion group is set up as a phonology forum and accepts questions and postings from anyone interested...
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36559
... I didn't see your explanations when I went to your site. I don't understand why you're deviating from your: 'Spelling a particular sound more than one way...
Gus Hasselquist
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Jul 1, 2006
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SB: The pronunciation to be represented by a dictionary key is referred to a broadcast English. This is the dialect that the widest audience has the ability...
Steve Bett
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Jul 2, 2006
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36562
source: www.foolswisdom.com/~sbett/potter.htm Interspel: Absolùtly bàsic, with the ònly modificàtion the 31 very comon sìt-wurds. The hotest dà of the...
Steve Bett
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Jul 2, 2006
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36563
This shows the kind of turn out you can get with the right kind of PR and organization: [Spelling Progress Bulletin December 1962 p1] Sir James Pitman & John...
Steve Bett
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Jul 2, 2006
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36564
from Ms. Bower, a retired teacher: http://www.spellingsociety.org/bulletins/b62/b62december.pdf Anyone actively crusading against look-and-say is to that...
Steve Bett
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Jul 2, 2006
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36565
... How are you going to persuade whoever 'u' is that change is 'needed' if you've not persuaded all the members here that it is? I see no 'need' for change....
Gus Hasselquist
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Jul 2, 2006
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Advertising or Madison Avenue spelling is blamed for the spelling problem. Of course, advertisers usually use a dictionary key spelling that is closer to...
Steve Bett
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Jul 3, 2006
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Spelling Progress Bulletin December 1962 p6] http://www.spellingsociety.org/bulletins/b62/b62december.pdf The G. B. Shaw Alphabet Contest, by Dr. Peter...
Steve Bett
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Jul 3, 2006
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36568
... I haven't seen it. Where is it found? ... Aside from the 300 million who speak GA and the 100 million who speak different varieties of RP, there are 200...
Gus Hasselquist
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Jul 3, 2006
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36569
House Stile and other transcriptions of tricky words. Franklin gets a lot of mileage out of his schwaV symbol, a turned h. I = µi or yi if the symbol does not...
Steve Bett
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Jul 3, 2006
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36570
... I agree with the above. When people are parents of younger children just starting to learn spelling, this is indeed the time to hit them with a simpler...
Gus Hasselquist
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Jul 4, 2006
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36571
This is to invite everyone to join 'Emtext,' 'a group set up to discuss the effect of emergency texting on written messages.' Note that this isn't the same as...
Rikd Cmei5
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Jul 4, 2006
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... Dis d'snt luk t b m'ch ov a grúp t me. On clikiq on yr ab'v sýt, i se der isnt enybody der b't u. Wý j'st t disc's emrjnsy textiq enywá wen textiq is...
Gus Hasselquist
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Jul 4, 2006
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36573
... discuss ... this ... whether ... se ... Doh. I was using the term in the Yahoo! sense - what else d'you want me to say - 'join a website'? - do people say,...
Rikd Cmei5
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Jul 4, 2006
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... If der rély is smthiq t disc's, wý ... Gus - note how the discussion re *emergency* texting affects my own contributions - e.g., I am no longer 'Rikd'...
Rikd Cmei5
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Jul 4, 2006
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... I clikd ontu yr saunds2 sýt ab'v tu, & i ricol béiq a membr ov dt fr awýl. I left wen i got tírd ov trýiq t figyr out & rimembriq wot ol d númr'ls...
Gus Hasselquist
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Jul 4, 2006
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... own ... of ... therefore a ... are ... spelling ... associates ... but ... invite ... seek ... d ... It's only me who used numerals at saunds2, not the...
Rikd Cmei5
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