ENgliS: Da ENgliS qlfabet qnd letar nAmz   Chart
  The hardest part about ENgliS is learning to sound spell.  English readers and writers do not build sound spelling skills because the traditional orthography is so unreliable. [more]

Traditional spelling [tradspel] is usually learned by memorizing visual patterns and eye rhymes. There is a basic sound code as proponents of phonics are quick to point out, but it only works about 50% of the time.  You can, however, memorize the four most likely spellings for a given sound and be right 85% of the time, provided you get four tries. Most people go thru the options and pick the spelling that looks right. [more]  .

Spell sapEna in tradspel: ____________________
The word means under penalty and refers to a writ commanding a person to appear in court. An order to appear in court is used enough on TV to be in everyone's vocabulary, but few have any idea how to spell it.  [problems with spelling]

HINT:  It sounds like sapEna but it contains two silent letters and an initial /^/ instead of /@/.  This distorts the stress pattern.  In English the vowels y and schwa-a are always unstressed. 

With a little practice, you can sound spell any word in your vocabulary correctly the first time. After less than three weeks of practice, you will be able to spell words in ENgliS with twice the accuracy of your conventional spellings.

First year students of German are able to spell German words with greater accuracy than they can English words.  English speaking students of German make less than half the spelling errors in German than they do in English [Upward, 1994].  German often has two ways to spell a particular sound but English has an average of nearly 14 ways.  4 of these ways account for about 85% of the spellings in the dictionary.

Most forms of regularized English are much easier to spell because they remove silent letters and extra letters such as double consonants when they do not mark a stressed short vowel.

Advocates of phonics will say that the sound in AXE is spelled only one way ignoring such spellings as plaid, have, half, laugh, dahlia, guarantee. AXE is spelled one way in ENgliS <ax> but this means that many words are respelled: plad, hav, laf, dalia, garantE. 

Sound spelling is about the only way to attain a highly predictable spelling system.  Unlike the traditional system, where one sound might be spelled 30 different ways, in ENgliS it is spelled only one.  Words that rhyme are spelled the same. wRdz Dqt rYm cr speld Da sAm.  Learn the ENgliS alphabet and you can spell any word you can correctly pronounce.  

To achieve a highly predictable spelling, the unstressed vowels must also be spelled.  ENgliS adds two new letters for this purpose the schwa a as in ago and the schwi y as in very.

The schwi y is an allophone of E except for being unstressed. For native speakers VerE is sufficient.  For ESL students, stress should be indicated  / Very /  or / 'VerE /

Stress is phonemic in English and 40% of the multi-syllable words have irregular stress.  Regular stress in English is on the first syllable.  

dEzYnd for fqst fOnEmik tYpiN

ENgliS is designed for fast phonemic typing on a standard QWERTY keyboard.  It contains no diacritics or special characters in its ASCII form, but can be converted when an extended character set is available.  

The most important conversion is probably q to a and c to ä.

ENgliS purports to be the best unigraphic ASCII  restricted notation for the English language
It is 99% phonemic, contains no digraphs and no exception rules, and has a high level of backward compatible.  It can be read without an instruction book or code key by anyone familiar with English. Accurate pronunciation may require a familiarity with the GP-Table. This version is for NBC-English.  It is not the best notation typographically nor the closest to tradspel.  Typographers may prefer a script without midword caps and with traditional caps marking the beginning of a sentence.  

ENgliS could be used as an i.t.a. altho it is not very close to tradspel.  Spanglish might be a little better since it is digraphic and tries to mimic the marking practices found in English spelling.

Latin 1 options 
æ à  è  ì  ò ù  ø ð ç ñ š ə á é í ó ú  â ê î ô û  ä ë ï ö ü å

 ENgliS  1  2  3  4  5
is pronounced <inglish>.  
E=/i:/  This is not a new pronunciation, just a new spelling that clearly indicates a broadcast English dialect.   p.1


Description
: Unigraphic- 1 symbol per phoneme.  shifted vowels represented as upper case letters: AEYOU. Digraphs represented as upper case letters: Ch  Dh Th  Sh Zh
ASCII restricted,

Since 60% of the words in English are not spelled as they are pronounced, 60% of the words are going to be respelled in any consistent phonemic writing system.

 rekognYzabl  rEspeliNz 

The challenge is to do this while making the spellings recognizable to those adept in tradspel.  

The challenj iz tu du this wail meiking the spelingz recognaizabl tu thowz adept in tradspel.

Da Cqlanj iz tw dw Dis 
WY
l mAkiN Da speliNz rekognYzabl tw DOz 
adept in trqdspel.


ENglis was developed by Steve Bett. 

There are no points for originality in orthographic design. ENgliS borrows ideas from many others systems. See www.m-w.com for a very similar orthography used as a pronunciation guide in a dictionary.

Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondences     

ENgliS defines the upper case AEYOU as shifted pronunciations of the long vowels.  The letter names are AEIOU and except for "wai" the letter sounds are the same as their names.

Y looks more like an "eye" and is a more distinctive shape than the capital I. It looks more natural in words such as FLY than FLI. The letter name for the Y shape should be "ai" or i: rather than wai. The nearest Greek letter in terms of shape is the upsilon. j can be used for yod.

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In many ways, Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, which first appeared in 1755, followed the same pattern as the Spanish dictionary, using quotations from canonical figures to put a word's usage in the proper context. In his introduction, Dr. Johnson noted that language was in constant mutation. Still, he said, his mission was to honor his country so "that we may no longer yield the palm of philology without a contest to the nations of the continent" and to give "longevity to that which its own nature forbids to be immortal."

Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondence Chart for ENgliS and Spanglish
Every phonemic description of the English language has the same cells and usually 85% of the same letter assignment.  The obscure vowels [a & v] and the free vowels [AEIOU] have the highest variability. 45 Soundsigns.  

a 
ago
a q
axe qks
e
elefant
i
pin ill
o c
olive
u
up hull
v hvk 
hook
wool
aa ä ar
c ox car
A á ei-ey
ape they
E  é ie
eel very
Y ý ai
eye  isle
O ó ow
oat  old
U iu view
yule 
pure
W ü uu
pool
zuulu
R ur-er
murder
ow owl 
out cow
Ar eir err
air error
oy
oil boy
aw   or
tawt or
R  ur
urge urj
vr  jvry
tour, poor
b boot d dig D  the J dZ judge g  gag z  zip Z azure
p pedal t  tip T  thug C tS church k corner s  sip S ship
v valley ng  sing uthr m prizm y   yel jw view ia  via
f  flag h  horse litl prizn wel wh hwer x ks extra

This chart can be used for both ENgliS & Spanglish
Spanglish uses digrafs & 10 rules while ENgliS uses unigrafs, 3
rules,
and substitutions such as c=
aa q=æ, W=uu, R=ur, D=th.
In SS, o and a are ambivalent.

Spanglish has one substitution, v for the obscure vowel /U/ which is spelled 5 ways in tradspel. .dW U nO how tW plA Dis kcrd gAm? = Du yu no how tu pley this card geim?

Spanglish returns to the Saxon alphabet used for Middle English while ENgliS uses the shifted values AEYOUW. Spanglish is as phonemic as Spanish. ENglis is about as phonemic as Finnish but not as easy to read for TO adepts.

The goals for any new orthography for English are: phonemic, consistent, compact, keyboard friendly, and learner friendly [easy to teach and learn]. The new script should be readable by tradspel adepts witout a key.  Anyone can read Spanglish but not without a little effort.  It takes more effort to read a system like ENgliS which uses "caps" as a diacritic.  A somewhat less keyboard friendly version can be created by using another diacritic - accents.
AEYOUW becomes áéíóúü.

"Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana"  [present day spelling]
Team-a flees leek an arroU, but fruit flees leek a banana
[pronounced as spelled]
Taim flaiz laik an arro, but fruut flaiz laik a bananna.
[spelled as pronounced]  SS 
.tYm flYz lYk an arO, but frwt flYz lYk a banana. [spelled as pronounced]  ENgliS 
Note:   Handwritten and printed ENgliS use short caps & diacritics instead of capital letters.
.tým flýz lýk an aró, but früt flýz lýk a banana. [spelled as pronounced]   ENgliS 

The   ENgliS   GP [grapheme-phoneme] or symbol-sound table

EN -  ENgliS    

6 Short Vowels
EN Sampa   examples NBC  [BBC]
i  /I/  bit, bitar   <bitter> [bitə]
e  /e/ bet, betar <better> [bet
ə]
q  /{/ bat, batar <batter>
u  /V/ bût, bûtar <butter>
c  /A/ got, boDar  /bcDar/ [NBC]
Q /Q/ gQt, bQDa  [BBC-English]
v  /U/ lvk, shvd wvd, kvd <could>

8 Free Vowels

a  /ə/ Alian, bûtar, Da < the > 
y  /i/  very byfor  < before > 
R /3:/ wRTh, bRdan <earth burden>
           hR, Rjant, her urgent

A /eI/ kAnz, lAdi, grA
E /i:/ rEl, fEl, pEpal, pEtsa, 
c: /A:/ fcdher, lcf

o /O:/ awe, /bot/ bought, taut
O /əU/ lO, gO, tO   /oU/
w  /u:/ trw, blw, shw

3 Diphthongs
Y   /aI/ rYt, wYt, sYt, lYk
oi /OI/ boy, toy
ow  /au/ out cow house /hows/

Combinations
U  /yu/ you fuel, sure, measure

r-combinations  @=ə
/aU@/ owr, powar BBC owə powə
/I@/ hir, Chir        BBC hiə  Ciə
/E@/ Der, wer, Weər <where>
/U@/ Shvr <sure>, bvr <boor>
/o@/  Sor, ror, dor / Soə, ro
ə

22 Consonants + y

see the blue cells on the right
bCdfghjklmnprsStDTVWzZ

y is a 95% vowel and semi consonant at the beginning of a word such as in 
yir <year> and yEst <yeast>.

w is a vowel and a semi consonant at the beginning of a word. ww <woo>
wwzy wzy <woozy uzi>

In the IPA, J and C are not considered to be pure phonemes.  The IPA uses dZ and tS respectively.  They may not be pure phonemes, but they are important enough to have their own symbol.

English is great for writing dialect but the only dialect it tries to represent is NBC or broadcast-English.

Phonemic spelling for email and SMS messaging


ENgliS is a simple phonemic transcription systems that uses only ASCII and QWERTY keyboard characters.  It is an attempt to create a 36 phoneme English writing system that is consistent, compact, and relatively easy to read without a code book or key.

Every letter should have one and only one pronunciation and every sound should be associated with one and only one letter.  This is the phonemic ideal.  ENgliS gets very close.  

Technically, there is no consonant w or y in the system but the wy vowels can act like semi-consonants at the beginning of a word.  yir yEst  There are not enough words like Wwzy wzy [woozy oozie] to justify having another letter added to the system. 

The alphabet is augmented from 23 characters to 52 by reassigning the upper case letters and two of the three redundant letters cqx.  AEIOIU become shifted vowels with the values ei, ie, ai, ou, yu.  R = 3, ar=shwa+r
are = cr, C DT SZ W for the h combinations: Ch, Dh-Th, Sh-Zh,  Wh.

The only problem character in the first six is the letter assigned for schwa - a instead of ə. The a is the standard character that most resembles the turned e or schwa character.  The italic a, when available, is used for the ae or ash sound. When not available the letter axe is represented with a reassigned q.

There are only 36 pure sounds on uncombined phonemes in English.  The J and Ch have been added to the list of important sounds needing a single symbol and the consonant w and y have been subtracted and do not have a unique symbol. 5 R-combinations are included in the chart below [coded orange]. 2 diphthongs and 2 combinations have also been added bringing the total to 45.  36-2+2+5+2+2 = 45.  [j] is available for use as a true consonant yod as in IPA.  W is available for the true consonant w but is usually used to indicate Wh.

 45 Phonograms including  some r combinations
The complete English alphabet or phonobet

a ago ar ə q  axe owl c  ah alms kcr  car Ap  ape
bwt boot C Church d dig mud e elefant er  air
E eel   y flqg  flag gws  goose hors horse in  pin
ir  irrigate Y  eye jump juj kik  kick levar lever
mavnd nOz nose  c ah ma o  awe or  oar
oy oyster O  owe pYp  pipe R herder hRdar ər
rAk rake sYz  size Sip  ship tip Da  the
Tin thin up sub pwl  pool tvr tour Uz use
ValV aV-of Wen hwen yEst yeast zig zag qZar azure

*Diphthongs - 2 sound glide or blend Y ai, ow, oy, U yw
 6 -r combinations:  ar- ər, cr-aar, er-air, ir-ear, or, wr.

ocean     now written OSan     
machine   "      "       
ma'SEn
racial       "       "      
rASal

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