The SSS House Stile is a very interesting scheme and rationale. 

 

 

OFFICIAL HOUSE STILE RULES 
as of October, 2006   (Minor update April 2007)


PRINCIPLES

a) We wil use the shortest, most foneemic variant spelling of a
word found in enny major dictionary.

b) Where a word is pronounced difrently in Standard British and
General American speech, we keep TS in the part of the word where
the pronunciation differs, e.g., 'schedule', 'missile'. This also
aplyes for a partial discrepancy ('arid', not 'arrid', 'was', not
'wos' or 'wus').

 

SB: This is an interesting principle since it undermines one of the key

arguments against spelling reform.  How can one scheme represent two

different dialects?  If the traditional spelling represents the way that

the word is spoken in an important dialect of English, the word is not respelled.

again is pronouinced the way it is spelled in some dialects - so it is not respelled

agen (The most common US pronunciation).

c) We cannot change a word to a TS homograf with a difrent
pronunciation, e.g., not 'off'' of'.

d) Root words (respeld or not) don't change wen suffixes ar added
orcompounds ar bilt, if it is not misleeding for pronunciation. 
die>di>dier, dye>dy>dyer

e) The spelling of propper names is not alterd.

f) final LE works as magic. bible, rifle, idle, cicle (for cycle).


RULES

[1] Cut  redundant letters.
The respelling must cleerly represent the corect pronunciation of
the word, acording to TS patterns.

Shwas folloing a consonant and preceeding L or R + vowel can be
cut, but optionaly also kept, eg travling, evry (or travveling and
evvery). �OUGHT� WITH /O:/ BECUMS 'AUT', EG BAUT. In case of dout
wich letter to cut, use folloing moddels: lak (not lac), marrage,
mountan, concius, acnollege. After a final long vowel insert E
befor a consonant suffix: i no, he noes, sno, it snoed, groeth.

Examples: hed, bom, hav, u, wen (optionaly when), acuse, colide,
finaly, basicly, discussd, rekless (not rekles), mesure. Examples

of cases with no cuts: could, should, who, call, pull, pressure,
future, unnatural, teemmate, pear.

[2] Primarily stressd short vowels: use a, e, i, o, u, with
traditional English spellings (TS) and use conventional dubbled
consonants to avoid the magic E efect. Eg: hed, hedded,  mith,
wimmen, yot, cum, cumming. Do not dubble J, Q, or X (project),
before -IC, -ITY, -OGY, or wen the consonant dusn't represent the
tipical sound of the letter (vision, not vission).

[3] Stressd long a, i, o in the last sillable: folloed by one
consonant or consonant + le, reggularized to magic E formula. Eg
sustane, hite, botes. Use 'ee' for stressd long /e/, eg kee,
leeflet, except in 'be, he, me, she, the, we' or befor anuther
vowel, eg theater.

[4] /f/ sound is speld 'f' or 'ff'. Eg fone, enuf, proffecy, off
    (however, /v/ sound can sometimes be spelled with an f (eg of))
    When PH and GH are used to represent /f/ they are respeld.
   
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SAMPLES:
Short vowels     Long Vowels
1        2       1      2   
bat     batter   bate   fatal
blak    blacker  blake  braker
bet     better   beet   fetal>feetal
bit     better   bite   fidel  bridal
bottle  bottle   bote   focal  foto
but     butter  *bute  *duty   nudity  (ambiguous: /u:/ or /ju:/

When it comes to long vowel representation, HS is rigid
(no exceptions).  fetal=feetal, mail=male, maid=made, bait=bate,
boat=bote.

Before a double consonant, aeiou represent short vowels. 
The double consonant disables the magic vowel effect. 
sock soccer soke  bill bile  bad bade

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