Goose, Sunday, 26 October 12025 HE
Oie, Quintidi, 5 Brumaire An CCXXXIV
C, a.d. VII Kal. Nov. AUC MMDCCLXXVIII
19V05
2016-08-25 – Nikon D3300
asking directions, Chiang Mai, Thailand
staying with English phonetic spelling reform, the easiest is to start with the consonants – out of 26 letters, we have 5 vowels, 17 straight-forward consonants, 4 extraneous consonants, and 7 unaccounted consonant sounds
we don‘t have to worry about: b /b/, d /d/, f /f/, g /g/, h /h/, k /k/, l /l/, m /m/, n /n/, p /p/, r /r/, s /s/, t /t/, v /v/, w /w/, y /y/, z /z/
the oddballs are: c /k/ or /s/, j /dʒ/, q /k/ or /kw/, x /ks/ or /z/
and we need some method to cover: /ʃ/, /tʃ/, /ʒ/, /dʒ/, /θ/, /ð/, /ŋ/ – we can re-assign ‘c’ to /tʃ/ and ‘j’ to /dʒ/ – we can try to revive ‘þ’ (thorn) for /θ/ and ‘ð’ (edh) for /ð/ – or we just resort to the English usage of digraphs for the leftovers: sh /ʃ/, zh /ʒ/, th /θ/, dh /ð/, ng /ŋ/
church → cerc
judge → juj, jʌj, jùj
thin → þın, thın
then → ðen, dhen
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs. → Ðe kwık braun foks jumpt over
ðe laizi dogs.
English-language spelling reform ↗
Pronunciation respelling for English ↗
the day after
the day before
the month before
the season before
the year before