User:Readable Spelling/1

Readble Spelling (stage 1) has the folloeing objéctivs
 * Minimal chaenjes from tradítional spelling
 * New patterns are
 * "aa" as in paam, faather
 * "ao" as in baoth, daonce
 * "ie" as in miend, lies
 * "uo" as "o" in British English and "u" in American English (enybuody)
 * "uu" as in guud, puull
 * "rr" as in marry, cherry, mirror, forrest, hurry
 * "oarr" as in soarry, boarroe


 * Fully readable words, excépt for grammátical words five letters or less
 * We aim at 95%, so some ambigueities may egzist


 * "g" sounds /g/ at the beggíning of the wurd and /dʒ/ in the middle (get, jeneral, toggéther, chainje)
 * "se" at the end of the wurd sounds /s/ (horse, cheeze)
 * Very few rules for the reader who knoes tradítional spelling
 * Same spelling in British Inglish and Amérrican Inglish, unléss the pronunciáetion is diffrent
 * Sielent letters are predíctable
 * Avóid new heteronyms
 * Avóid new homonyms, but meny of them will appéar
 * The oenly special carracter is the stress mark (acúte accent)

Uther característics

 * We still have magic "e"
 * Tradítional past tense
 * We still have duble letters
 * No l-m-n-r rule yet
 * No "o"-"w" or "i"-"y" rules yet
 * "s" may predíctably be /z/
 * We still have "c", "x", and "q", with predíctable sounds
 * We keep the sielent "e" to tell appárt pluerals (clauze, clawz).
 * "Y" may predíctably be a vowel

Comma gets a cure
Well, here’s a story for you: Sarrah Perry was a veterinary nurse who had been wurking daily at an oeld zoo in a desérted district of the territory, so she was very happy to start a new job at a suepérb prievate practice in North Squaire near the Duke Street Tower. That airea was much nearer for her and more to her liking. Eeven so, on her first morning, she felt stressed. She ate a boel of porridge, checked hersélf in the mirror and woshed her face in a hurry. Then she puut on a plain yelloe dress and a fleece jacket, picked up her kit and heded for wurk.

When she got dhere, dhere was a wuuman with a goose waiting for her. The wuuman gave Sarrah an offícial letter from the vet. The letter implíed that the animal cuud be suffering from a raire form of fuut and mouth diseaze, which was surprizing, becáuze normally you wuud oenly expéct to see it in a dog or a goat. Sarrah was sentiméntal, so this made her feel soarry for the beutiful bird.

Befóre long, that itchy goose beggán to strut aróund the office like a luenatic, which made an unsánitary mess. The goose’s oener, Mairy Harrison, kept calling, “Comma, Comma”, which Sarrah thought was an odd choice for a name. Comma was strong and huge, so it would take some force to trap her, but Sarrah had a diffrent iedéea. First she tried jently stroking the goose’s loear back with her paam, then singing a tune to her. Fienally, she admínistered eether. Her efforts were not fuetile. In no time, the goose begán to tiere, so Sarrah was aeble to hoeld onto Comma and giv her a reláxing baoth.

Wunce Sarrah had managed to baethe the goose, she wiped her off with a cloth and laid her on her right side. Then Sarrah confírmed the vet’s dieagnóesis. Allmoest imméediatly, she remémbered an efféctiv treatment that requíered her to mesure out a lot of medicin. Sarrah worned that this corse of treatment might be expénsiv-eedher five or six times the cost of penicíllin. I can’t imagin paying so much, but Mrs. Harrison-a millionáire lawyer-thought it was a fair price for a cure.

Comma Gets a Cure and derívativ wurks may be uzed freely for any purpos without special permíssion províded the present sentence and the folloeing copyright noetificáetion accómpany the passage in print, if reprodúced in print, and in audio format in the case of a sound recórding: Copyright 2000 Douglas N. Honorof, Jill McCullough & Barbara Somerville. All rights resérved.

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