Seems a pretty logical development of the anglosaxon Futhorc. :) If that had remained the primary alphabet north of the Alps, instead of being replaced by the...
Interesting work. And it is revolutionary in that it is a phonetic rendering of English. Mind you, I am pretty ambivalent about spelling reform for English...
... I think the current spellings too often "loose" (by which I assume you mean "lose") the links with etymological relationships or the link with the Old...
Maybe before we reform the English spelling system, we need to contrive a canonical "con-dialect" of English that has all the phonemes that we want to retain....
... speakers. ... occurred. ... Then why don't we "Standard" people ask each other whether we mean "which" or "witch" when we hear [wItS]? We don't need...
... speakers. ... occurred. ... Oh, pardon me, I just realized what you were talking about with respect to "con-dialect" when I reread your post. My...
... I believe most people would analyze these words as [bæs-tS&n], [kwEs-tS&n], [pæs-tS&r] (pasture), [Es-tSu:] (eschew). The [tS] would be the same sort of...
... KWEST-SCH@N ... My shorter Oxford English give [m@"tjU@] for "mature". It gives ["neItS@] for "nature. But yes when I pronounce them, I think I have the...
... merger) ... No we are smart enough to tell the difference. And an Estuary English speaker who pronounces "health" and "elf" in the same way is smart enough...
I have made known my objections in principal to the idea of English spelling. But as a thought exercise, I do have one or two ideas about how to approach it. ...
As a trained actor I sometimes have to use this "careful" pronunciation on the stage. In those cases I make a distinction between "Tudor" ["tju:d@] and...
Everything you have said below sounds reasonable. Unlike you, I am not opposed to the IDEA of English spelling reform, I think it would be a good thing for...
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Do you have a dictionary somewhere of any proposal that you have made to reform the spelling? Maybe with the 2000 most commonly occurring words in English?...
... Well, although in private I have come up with possible spelling schemes for a reformed English spelling system, I personally certainly have not published...
... made ... occurring ... am ... would ... the ... But I ... be ... spelling ... think ... The biggest problem is that English hasn't had any major spelling ...
... Jarrette ... certainly ... 12 ... system ... and ... I was a victim of ITA. It was taught to us in first grade. I still think it was a very lame idea...
There are 1 or 2 advantages to having such and archaic spelling system. For one it makes it easier to read works of late middle and early modern English. It...
... and ... words ... of ... Except that Joe Sixpack really doesn't know or care much about etymologies. He just wants to be able to write without looking...
... Yes, it makes the etymology more obvious in such words, but does anyone really associate "nature" with "native" or "nation" semantically? They have...
I always found English respell-solutions quite workable that used accents. Much like in Faeroese where a quasi-Old Norse orthography forms the historicising...
... Well a member of a NATion is a NATive. And when an immigrant changes citizenship, she or he becomes NATuralized. In the current spelling, it is more...
... accents. ... derivable from ... national ... reading ... Yes accents might be the way to go, that way we could retain, the Notional connections between...
... "gnashes". ... Yes, a member of a nation is a native, but when I think of politicians referring to "our great nation" such as e.g. the US, I think they are...
... It seems Mr. Prohaska has hit upon an idea for spelling reform that we can all agree upon. I hadn't read this reply of yours when I submitted my last...
I would consider that in domain of orthography there is difference between "regular" and "simple" and "phonetic". Also there is the possibility of having...
... between "regular" and ... uni-directional regularity or ... only in one ... ALWAYs [T]. You can know ... containing "z" or "ci" ... with a "z" or a "c"....
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