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Creative spelling scheme

From:Morgan Palaeo Associates <morganpalaeo@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 10, 2001, 3:16
As an intellectual challenge, I've created an English spelling
scheme that works with my dialect.

It is not intended to be 100% phonetic, or even unambiguous. It is
mostly so (compared to the status quo), but with enough exceptions to
make it interesting and give it character.

An apostrophe ' will denote a diacritic on the previous letter.
Examples will be given as English word followed by reformed (Englhec)
spelling.

Vowels
------

Of the five vowels, all except 'i' may carry a diacritic.
Long vowels are a digraph ending in 'o'. This may change quality.
Some vowels (e'o, u'o) are always spelt as though they were long. *
For miscellaneous vowels, round off to nearest listed vowel.

* except in vowel clusters and diphthongs.

   "bat"    = bat      "bet"    = ba't
   "bad"    = baod     "bird"   = bu'od
   "bit"    = bet      "beat"   = beot
   "bottle" = bottl    "book"   = bo'k
   "bored"  = bood     "school" = sko'ol
   "bud"    = bud      (schwa)  = i
   "bard"   = buod     "boot"   = be'ot

Vowel clusters and diphthongs
-----------------------------

In vowel clusters, where two vowels are distinctly pronounced with an
implicit light consonant between them, the length of the vowels are
not indicated (i.e. the 'o' in a digraph is dropped).

In diphthongs, length is not indicated and all diacritics are dropped.
It is agreed that "oh" = ie and "eye" = ue.

Stress
------

* If the final syllable ends with a vowel and is stressed, a 'h' is
  placed after it.
* If a _single_ consonant follows a stressed vowel, the consonant is
  doubled.
* If two or more consonants follow a stressed vowel, regardless of
  which syllable the consonants are part of, a 'h' follows the
  cluster.

Monosyllablic words are not considered stressed.

Consonants
----------

   Main deviations from English:

   "sh" = c     "th" (unvoiced) = hs
   "ch" = tc    "th" (voiced)   = hz
   "j"  = dj

Examples
--------

   "Adrian Paul Morgan" = Aedrhein Po'ol Mo'oggin
   "T-shirt"            = teoccu'ot
   "go away"            = gie iwaeh
   "father"             = fuohzhi
   "sarsaparilla"       = suozphira'lli
   "America"            = Ima'reki
   "Australia"          = Istraellei
   "Jesus Christ"       = Djeozziz Kruest

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