Re: Conspelling
From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, July 12, 2000, 18:16 |
Muke Tever wrote:
> It could do that by building on the
> actual _current_ spelling rules of English. (The biggest problem with a new
> spelling is that to the old spelling, so much is spelled wrong!)
That is indeed the principle of Regularized Inglish, and no, there is no
web site for it yet. I hope there will be one someday; I have typed in
a fair amount of stuff, but it is by no means complete.
> Anyway, based on this what I've studied so far, I probably would not call
> 'aile' for 'aisle' "regular" English, because the normal sound of 'ai' is
> "long-A": maim, mail, fail, quail, rail, rain, main, stain, Spain,
> maize...[2] That is, even 'aile' is irregularly spelled (even though it
> doesn't look it if you think of the Romance-vowel-value of 'ai').[1]
Perfectly correct. The Reg.Ing. spelling of "aisle" is in fact "yle".
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