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...
English language in USA song Learn truespel in 15 minutes at http://tinypaste.com/764f4 Â English language in USA song Learn truespel in 15 minutes at...
tom zurinskas
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Feb 17, 2009 11:41 pm
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English language song. It's popular on youtube  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJfS1v-fU0 Learn truespel in 15 minutes at http://tinypaste.com/764f4  ...
tom zurinskas
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Feb 17, 2009 11:42 pm
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These 5 words are from m-w.com. There is a schwa in each that the speaker pronounces as a different phoneme. That's at least 5 different sounds for one symbol....
Regarding the popularity of letters and letter strings for spelling sounds, there is a relevant book that counts them up. It's "The Alphabet and Sounds of USA...
In terms of word popularity, the letter "u" is use 50% more than "oo" in tradspel to spell the "long u" sound (~ue). In fact "oo" is used slightly less than...
If one were to propose changing tradspel toward some future design of consistent spelling - the alphabetical principle - one needs to have present usage data...
I'd say there are 3 ways of say the sound "n", the most often spoken sound of USA English. For each, the tongue forms a dam so air is routed through the nose...
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Someone asked which is more prevalent in English, the short a sound ~a (as in "cat,bag") or the "ah" sound ~aa (as in "father,mom"). This comparison is...
... Rather for USA English go to truespel. IPA is obsolete. In 1987 some European countries formed groups to gather and come up with a phonetic notation as an...
from an ESL forum posting: "Note that the "au" (awe) sound is not used by all Americans. They substitute the lax "o" (ah) sound. So you don't really need to...
To see how many homophones that are in general text, copy-paste text into the truespel text converter at truespel.com (click converter box on the main page)....
Zipspel A while back I came up with the idea of zipspel. You use the auto correct function (MS Word) to zip words. For the word "the" you could zip it into...
I do dump on the IPA, but I recognize that it has been a very good thing. It began the sorting of speech sounds and has sorted so many. Actually, it was...
I did the analysis below using the Collins Cobuild database that counts word usage in print (truespel book 4): Examining the; "i" before "e" except after "c"...
I looked at the rule "I before e except after c when the sound is ee" (then it's e before i). It is basically true when you look at it from a word frequency...
A 1809 English Spelling Book by William Fordyce Mavor (digitized by Google) http://www.archive.org/details/englishspelling02mavogoog Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20,...
Truespel spells ~jist for tradspel "gist". There are more google hits for "jist" than "gist" but maybe it's a word in another language. Or could it be...
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