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 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...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
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... 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...
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...
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...
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...
from Ms. Bower, a retired teacher: http://www.spellingsociety.org/bulletins/b62/b62december.pdf Anyone actively crusading against look-and-say is to that...
... 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....
Advertising or Madison Avenue spelling is blamed for the spelling problem. Of course, advertisers usually use a dictionary key spelling that is closer to...
Spelling Progress Bulletin December 1962 p6] http://www.spellingsociety.org/bulletins/b62/b62december.pdf The G. B. Shaw Alphabet Contest, by Dr. Peter...
... 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...
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...
... 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...
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...
... 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...
... 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,...
... 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'...
... 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...
... own ... of ... therefore a ... are ... spelling ... associates ... but ... invite ... seek ... d ... It's only me who used numerals at saunds2, not the...