SoundSpel

SoundSpel is a spelling reform proposal for English devised and advocated particularly by Edward "Ed" Rondthaler (1905-2009), who started working on it in the 1980s. Rondthaler was a typographer and chairman of the American Literacy Council, and in 1986 he and Edward Lias published the Dictionary of simplified AMERICAN SPELLING - An alternative spelling for English, which included details of SoundSpel. It is based on American English pronunciation.

Notable features

• SoundSpel can be written with the standard Latin alphabet, or with some extra letters for certain sounds.
• It is written all in lower case.

SoundSpel

Download an alphabet chart for SoundSpel (Excel)

Sample texts

Standard spelling

Think what toil-free pleasure children will take in learning to read when printed leters and their sounds are always consistantly related. With that assurance, their slow sound-reading soon becomes fast sense-reading.

Helped now by context, the child gets sense from our grown-up spelling, as you have read the sense of strange-looking words.

Source:

Gettysburg Address

Foerscor and seven yeers ago our faathers braut forth, on this continent, a nue naeshon, conseevd in liberty and dedicaeted to th propozishon that all men ar creaeted eeqal.

Standard spelling

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Source: https://www.americanliteracy.com/

Information about SoundSpel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundSpel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Rondthaler
https://www.americanliteracy.com/
https://www.spellingsociety.org/uploaded_views/pv8rondthaler-personal-view.pdf

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