Heliotrope, Monday, 27 October 12025 HE
Héliotrope, Sextidi, 6 Brumaire An CCXXXIV
D, a.d. VI Kal. Nov. AUC MMDCCLXXVIII
19V06
2016-08-26 – Nikon D3300
abandoned rolling stock, Bangkok, Thailand
Moby – “Everytime You Touch Me” ↗
vowels in English (at least in writing) are another issue – English has 5 vowels (a, e, i, o, u), 2 sometimes vowels (w, y), 11 to 12 vowel sounds, 5 dipthongs (/ei/, /ou/, /ai/, /au/, /ɔi/), and 3 r-colored vowels (/iɹ/, /eɹ/, /uɹ/) – and there’s quirks, like English speakers assuming the /ou/ dipthong is just /o/ (“boat” /bout/)
to complicate things, “long vowels” in English are not lengthened vowels but a different pronunciation – and English has the “magic E” which is silent but changes previous vowels to “long vowels”
a: /a/ → /ei/
e: /e/ → /i/
i: /ɪ/ → /ai/
o: /ɔ/ → /o/
u: /ʌ/ → /u/
w: /u/
y: /i/
while not accurate, in most cases you could get by with simpler solutions – the 5 vowels approximate their IPA pronunciation (a /a/, e /e/, i /i/, o /o/, u /u/) – ignore sometimes-w, sometimes-y – leaving you with figuring out how to mark /ɪ/, /ɔ/, /ʌ/, and /ə/ – some spelling reforms will ignore /ə/ altogether – and most writers are not going to be thrilled about trying to use the IPA symbols – which leaves the possibility of attempting to use accented characters (ì, ò, ù) or bringing in digraphs again (ih, oh, uh)
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Ðe kwìk braun fòks jùmpt ovr ðe laizi dogs.
Dhe kwihk braun fohks juhmpt ovr dhe laizi dogs.
English-language spelling reform ↗
Silent e ↗
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