http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/ truespel Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:54:21 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/541 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/541 A 1809 English Spelling Book by William Fordyce Mavor (digitized by Google) http://www.archive.org/details/englishspelling02mavogoog Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:36:14 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/540 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/540 I looked at the rule "I before e except after c when the sound is ee" (then it's e before i). It is basically true when you look at it from a word frequency Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:07:55 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/539 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/539 I did the analysis below using the Collins Cobuild database that counts word usage in print (truespel book 4): Examining the; "i" before "e" except after "c" Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:00:07 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/538 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/538 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+ see truespel.com Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:26:18 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/537 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/537 I do dump on the IPA, but I recognize that it has been a very good thing. It began the sorting of speech sounds and has sorted so many. Actually, it was Fri, 29 May 2009 02:11:29 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/536 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/536 Zipspel A while back I came up with the idea of zipspel. You use the auto correct function (MS Word) to zip words. For the word "the" you could zip it into Sat, 23 May 2009 20:22:49 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/535 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/535 To see how many homophones that are in general text, copy-paste text into the truespel text converter at truespel.com (click converter box on the main page). Sat, 23 May 2009 16:18:01 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/534 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/534 from an ESL forum posting: "Note that the "au" (awe) sound is not used by all Americans. They substitute the lax "o" (ah) sound. So you don't really need to Mon, 18 May 2009 20:06:13 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/533 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/533 qlippit speech. Click the play arrow. I think the vocal quality is a little rough. Perhaps a better mike would work. http://tinyurl.com/pf8fkl Tom Sun, 17 May 2009 12:40:21 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/532 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/532 ... Rather for USA English go to truespel. IPA is obsolete. In 1987 some European countries formed groups to gather and come up with a phonetic notation as an Sun, 03 May 2009 23:11:21 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/531 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/531 Someone asked which is more prevalent in English, the short a sound ~a (as in "cat,bag") or the "ah" sound ~aa (as in "father,mom"). This comparison is Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:52:18 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/530 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/530 At thefreedictionary.com I hear ?portmanteau? spoken three ways. Click on the icons and hear spoken USA ~portmintoe POR?-min-toe (glottalized Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:56:54 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/529 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/529 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UoJ1-ZGb1w&NR=1 Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+ see truespel.com Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:37:28 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/528 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/528 See below - UK to teach proper pronunciation ... _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live? SkyDrive: Get 25 GB of free Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:27:14 GMT Tom Zurinskas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/527 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truespel/message/527 I'd say there are 3 ways of say the sound "n", the most often spoken sound of USA English. For each, the tongue forms a dam so air is routed through the nose