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Cut Spelling does not eliminate all doubled letters: in some words (especially two-syllable words) the doubled consonant letter is needed to differentiate from another differently pronounced word (e.g., holly and holy). Examples: innate → inate, necessary → necesary, spell → spel. The Cut Spelling system also uses three substitution rules ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Romanian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Romanian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
1. 'ь' is used to indicate a word ends in a consonant. This was eventually dropped to reduce printing cost. 2. 'й' is the equivalent of unstressed и at the end of a word. [citation needed] 3. Є, Ѻ, Оу, Ꙗ are the initial variants of Е, О, Ꙋ, Ѧ respectively. 4. Ї is the equivalent of И before a vowel. It is also used in Greek ...
Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and orthography.
While the 1993 spelling norm is compulsory in Romanian education and official publications, and gradually most other publications came to use it, there are still individuals, publications and publishing houses preferring the previous spelling norm or a mixed hybrid system of their own; among them are the weekly cultural magazine Dilema Veche ...
Christopher Upward (14 November 1938 – 4 August 2002) was an English orthographer, notable for designing the system of cut spelling, a system of English-language spelling reform which reduces redundant letters and makes substitutions to improve correspondence with the spoken word, as well as for the book The History of English Spelling, which was unfinished at the time of his death, but was ...
Spelling reforms have been proposed for various languages over the years; these have ranged from modest attempts to eliminate particular irregularities (such as SR1 or Initial Teaching Alphabet) through more far-reaching reforms (such as Cut Spelling) to attempts to introduce a full phonemic orthography, like the Shavian alphabet or its revised ...
SoundSpel (previously Classic New Spelling, New Spelling, World English Spelling) 1910–1986 Various Basic SR1 (Spelling Reform step 1) 1969 Harry Lindgren: Basic The Global Alphabet 1944 Robert L. Owen: Replaced The Opening of the Unreasonable Writing of Our Inglish Toung: 1551 John Hart: Extended Traditional Spelling Revised (TSR) 2021 ...