This page links to a number of files
about spelling
reform, including descriptions of and text in a number of
systems. As the site grows, I hope to include some files
transcribing the same text into many systems, allowing the reader to
easily contrast the use of these systems in practice.
The systems are organized both by the
kind of system
(according to this
classification scheme) and by their inventor.
Some systems have external links, and
some are links to
files on wyrdplay.org. The external files are noted as
such. Note that I have not modified the content of any of the
files, which still represent their author's original intent.
I
may have altered an author's original file to improve its appearance,
with the author's permission.
Many of the referenced pages include
SAMPA phonemic
encodings enclosed in slashes, as in this example:
/Igz{mp@l/. A
quick reference on the SAMPA encoding for English may be found here.
More details may be found here.
ENgliS
FLOSS
(Fonemic Latin-One
Spelling System)
MCM
(Mixed Case Minglish)
NQaLF
(external
site)
Unifon (external
site)
Bobdot
(see also Bobdot-ph)
(convert to
Bobdot)
Bobdot
(compared to
Arbdot)
Fanetik (external
site)
Inglish (external
site)
Inglish2
Ipifuny
Lojikl Inglish
(see also RLI) (Convert
to LI)
Portul (convert to Portul)
SREA2 (Spelling
Reform with an Extended Alphabet 2) (external site)
SRS4g (Simplified ReSpell 4g)
Truespel (external
site)
WLM
(Weird Looking Minglish, reference)
WLM
(introduction, written in WLM)
ALC
SoundSpel (external site)
Arbdash (convert to Arbdash)
Arbdot
Arbdot
(compared to
Bobdot)
Folksrite
IRM (Increased
Readability
Minglish)
WMM (Weirdly
Marked Minglish)
DRE
(Diacritically Regularized English, reference) (convert to DRE)
DRE
(introduction, written in
DRE)
DRE
(examples)
DRE
(design justification)
MORE
(Majic-e Oanly RITE)
RITE
(external site)
SRS
(Simplified ReSpell)
WRE (Wijk's
Regularized English,
notes)
Overview
of my systems
Arbdash (convert to
Arbdash)
Arbdot
Arbdot
(compared to
Bobdot)
DRE
(Diacritically Regularized English, reference) (convert to DRE)
DRE
(introduction, written in DRE)
DRE
(examples)
DRE (design
justification)
FLOSS
(Fonemic Latin-One
Spelling system)
IRM
(Increased Readability Minglish)
RLI (a variant of Lojikl Inglish) (convert to RLI)
MCM
(Mixed Case Minglish)
WLM
(Weird Looking Minglish, reference)
WLM
(introduction, written in WLM)
WMM (Weirdly
Marked Minglish)
ALC
Soundspel (external site)
WRE
(Wijk's Regularized English, notes)
Bobdot
(see also Bobdot-ph)
(convert to
Bobdot)
SRS
(Simplified ReSpell)
SRS4g
(Simplified ReSpell 4g)
SREA2 (Spelling Reform with an Extended Alphabet 2) (external site)
Unifon (external site)
Fanetik (external site)
RITE
(external site)
Status of my
systems
Folksrite
Ipifuny
Portul (convert to Portul)
MORE
(Majic-e Oanly RITE)
Truespel (external
site)
The Wyrdplay
Converter
allows you to convert English passages in standard spelling into one of
six reformed spellings: Arbdash, Bobdot, DRE, Lojikl Inglish, Portul
and Rifaurmed Lojikl Inglish. Give it a try!
Bob Boden's "The Late
Arrival"
(in 4 respelling systems)
Samples of Paul
Stought's systems
(5 texts)
H.G.
Wells' "The Star" (in 11 systems)
ABCD, A
Blended Spelling/Pronunciation Code (Alan Beale)
CAAPR, a Combined
Anglo-American
Pronunciation Reference (Alan Beale)
Constructing an
Alternate
Dictionary
(Alan Beale)
Designing
Spelling Systems
(Paul Stought and Alan Beale)
Diacritics
and Computing (J C Wells, external site)
English
Accents and Their Implications (J C Wells, external site)
English Sound-Symbol
Correspondences
(Alan Beale)
Extending the
Alphabet
(Michael Avinor, external site)
NBC English Vowel
Proposal
(Bob
Boden)
NBC English Sound
Chart
(Bob
Boden)
Paul Stought's
Spelling Reform Blog (Paul Stought)
Phondot, a new approach
to teaching
reading (Bob Boden, external site)
Refuting the arguments against reform (Justin B Rye, external site)
RESCUE, a transparent
phonemic notation
(Alan Beale, with help from David Barrow)
Typing Diacritics with
Windows
(Alan Beale)
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