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]
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It may be appropriate to us a double a for words such as psalm and balm, although they seem to be realitvely few in number (compared with the BATH group),
... also in words such as "farther" (father). It sees no need to use the formula "aa". ... This is the BATH lexical set. I agree that in most cases the more
Hü sez Éngli$ haz rülz? The problem is not that one cannot find regularities or rules in traditional spelling. The problem is that most rules work less than