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Saundspel, the phonology forum, is a discussion group for those interested in spelling by sound, applied linguistics, writing systems, history, and spelling reform. If you have a language related question, post it here. If you post something that is not language related, you will be banned from the group.

The Saundspel discussion group was originally set up to build a machine readable IPA analog for transcribing English speech. SAMPA* was available but not designed as a writing system. ENgliS , Unigraf, and similar notations are about as close as we have come to finding an easily read and typed way to represent 40+ sounds with a 26 character (ASCII) keyboard. An improved orthography for World English (see euro-english) remains a key but not the sole concern of this group. [more]  [includes 20 links]

SAMPA links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-SAMPA
http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/langdoc/EGA/Formats/Sampa/sampa.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/x-sampa

Member Comment: People in this group talk about (1) the impact of traditional orthography on literacy and (2) issues relating to pronunciation

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Critique of a dictionary's notation
Critique of German Dictionary notation from John Wells. http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/blog.htm   One wonders who these transcriptions are for. Is this
Posted - Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:39 am
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People should spell as they please -- Quote or misquote?
David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party   " Listen to this. It's the President of the Spelling Society. He said, and I quote, "people should be able
Posted - Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:58 am
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Re: Should children try to memorize spelling lists?
Thanks pilot, Changing "of" to "uv" regularizes the sound of ~v as spelled by "v" and not by "f". This is a The "u" as "uh" ~u is standard USA accent. For
Posted - Sat Oct 11, 2008 3:26 am
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Re: mis-using English
Would you say "for I" or "for me". Then why should it be **for you and I. I would always say "for you and me". Dan ________________________________________
Posted - Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:03 pm
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Re: Difficulty with the British short o and its SAMPA or IPA represe
Take a course and have no trouble? Doubt it. Would those taking the course have no trouble distinguishing long e from short i in thin and think. If they
Posted - Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:26 pm
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