Truespel was the first web based converter for alternative phonetic spelling that I know of. A more up-to-date converter is at truespel.com. It's made by...
I like the idea of one common pronunciation. That would be best for communication and bring the world closer together. The best pronunciation to my mind is...
Many thanks to Chris Pirillo, the creator of lockergnome, who published this blurb I sent him at the site below. He has a big following. ...
tom zurinskas
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Jun 17, 2007 2:47 am
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The sounds for the ending "-ous" in USA English as spoken in m-w.com. There are 25 words in the top 5,000 words of English that end in "ous" as per the...
Analysis of the vowel sounds for the endings "-tion, -sion, and -cion" as spoken in m-w.com (USA English accent). There are 150 words in the top 5,000 words of...
A song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJfS1v-fU0 The truespel converter is at truespel.com, and the four truespel books and "Occasional Poems" are at...
tom zurinskas
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Jul 9, 2007 12:45 am
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A listing of which side of the road countries drive on is given at the site below and interesting reasons why. Can you imagine Sweden changing from the left...
Analyzing the letters of the alphabet These data below are from my investigations of letter frequency in general text (newspapers etc.) as documented in my...
More on the letter "a." The predominant positions of letter "a" in words: word position % words starting with "a" = 39% words with "a" in middle = 52% words...
Words starting with "ex" There are 64 words in the top 5,000 words of English that start with "ex" according to the word-count analysis of English media text...
Of interest to me is regularizing the spelling of one phoneme per year in the style of truespel. Take the easiest ones first. There would be 40 phases over...
~ ~ ~ ~TRUESPEL TUTORIAL~ ~ ~ ~ By Thomas E. Zurinskas, creator of truespel, 4-20-07 Truespel is a simplified pronunciation key for our dictionaries based on...
The Letter "c" The letter "c" is a bit complicated for a consonant. It's involved mainly in three sounds. The majority (59%) of letter "c"s stand for the ...
I like the term "grapheme" standing for "the spelling of a phoneme." But this term is used to describe phonic notation (letters or strings in tradtional...
The Letter “d” For adults learning English as a second language, the consonant "d" may present challenges because the letter stands for different sounds ...
I agree. I'd have to call it a phoneme, but a special one, showing that the absence of a sound counts too. President Bush says the word "important" as...
Truespel is much like the ita, but uses no special symbols, and thus is more user friendly. I take excerpts regarding an ita study from below. All writing is...
The Letter "f" For adults learning English as a second language, the consonant "f" may present challenges because the letter stands for different sounds. The...
The Letter "g" For adults learning English as a second language, the consonant "g" may present challenges because the letter stands for different sounds The...
Perhaps phonetics can fit its way into child education. If phonetics is simplified, it can be taught to kids as a preliminary reading instruction for phonemic...
The Letter 'h" For adults learning English as a second language, the consonant "h" may present challenges because the letter stands for different sounds. There...
The Letter "i" For adults learning English as a second language, the letter "i" may present challenges because the letter stands for different sounds. The...
The Letter "j" For adults learning English as a second language, the consonant "j" may present challenges because letters can stand for different sounds in...
The Letter "k" For adults learning English as a second language, the consonant "k" may present challenges because letters can stand for different sounds in...
I wonder about the relationship of stress to double consonants (apart from the silent e rule). Which spelling of the nonsense words below 1, 2, or 3 would be...
The Letter "L" For adults learning English as a second language, the consonant "l" may present challenges because letters can stand for different sounds in...
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