Note: You need to click twice on the triangle to the left of the blue line to hear my message play. How do you pronounce NEVADA? This is how you pronounce the...
hai, this is arun from chennai new to this group, i just now joined in a callcentre and i dont know how americans pronounce certain words, so if you happen to...
Hi Arun, You can paste passages into the converter and see how to say them as written in truespel notation. This will give you an American standard media...
To see how often homonyms happen in text, go to truespel.com. Copy a tradspel paragraph from somewhere and paste it in the converter to convert it to truespel...
Below is a qlippit of the ing-ink ang-ank issue. http://www.qlipmedia.com/wqb/index.php?discid=b9da9b86Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+See...
This clippit is a discussion by me of the sound of "o" in phoneme ~or (the sound of the vowel "o" as influenced by following phoneme ~r in tradstreeng...
A tradstreeng is a string of letters in tradspel (traditional spelling). It could be any number of letters in a row and more than one phoneme or syllable. For...
dateline April 1, 2008 Terroristic threat! http://eslblogs.englishclub.com/blog/news/un-to-ban-non-english/ The truespel converter is at truespel.com, and the...
tom zurinskas
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Apr 1, 2008 4:13 pm
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The list of truespeleengz of the 40 sounds of English as explained by me. Notice that truespel is very close to English spelling but for a few instances where...
tom zurinskas<tzurins...
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Apr 5, 2008 7:51 pm
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There are more native speakers of English in America than in all the other nations combined. http://www.qlipmedia.com/wqb/index.php?discid=bed79d83 This link...
tom zurinskas<tzurins...
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Apr 5, 2008 8:06 pm
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This list of words is from truespel in a nutshel. It has a pretty even distribution on phonemes in single syllable words. ...
tom zurinskas<tzurins...
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Apr 5, 2008 8:33 pm
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I hope linguists see truespel as an opportunity for development. It opens new capabilities for phonetic spelling (English friendly, keyboard friendly, email...
This list is from the truespel in a nutshel practice list. It has two syllable words with a mix of stress on first and second syllable. ...
tom zurinskas<tzurins...
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Apr 6, 2008 11:44 pm
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If English speakers don't adopt an English-friendly phonetic spelling NOW, will they be forced to use one based on another language in the future? Should...
What is incredible to me is that SAMPA was created in 1987, the same year truespel was created, and for the same reason, keyboard entry simplicity. All SAMPA...
Below is the site for the complete Noah Webster's American Spelling Book. http://www.merrycoz.org/books/spelling/SPELLING.HTM There are interesting sections on...
I wondered how regular English spelling is. I cranked it through my book 4 database and found that in running text (newspapers) the consonants are spelled in...
Someone said "drills" for reading are bad. The Direct Instruction method shows that teaching reading is like teaching sports. You start with mastering basic...
Some say the long vowels in USA English are two sounds - diphthongs. I believe the long vowels are one sound - monophthongs. Go to the the link below. I...
The addresses below are qlippits of me talking about truespel. The Beige Fox Story This tutorial below has illustrates the spellings of the 40 sounds of USA...
The link below is for tinypaste.com. It's a nice capability to transmit clipboard info. After going to the link site, you'll see the transmitted info in the...
tom zurinskas
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Jun 29, 2008 3:13 pm
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The study below shows that alternative spellings like texting don't hurt traditional spelling. Some say that if kids learn truespel as a phonetic spelling...
Recently a person I just met was talking about "a hock". It took me a while to figure he was talking about a "hawk". In this context a person wrote "he was...
Some folks like the idea of changing tradspel to make it more phonetically consistent.  Regarding a first small baby step change to tradspel, a good one...
tom zurinskas
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Dec 19, 2008 3:02 pm
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When the IPA was created in the 1886 I assume that French was the hot scientific language of the time. The IPA was created in France and its journal published...
Feb 2 is Groundhog day in US. If Punxutawney Phil, the groundhog at Punxutawney Pennsylvania, sees his shadow, it's 6 more weeks of winter. He's been about...
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