But selected so that each symbol represents one & only one sound.
(unlike: calorie/celery, gin/gun, icicle, bet/beet…)
And each sound is represented by one & only one symbol.
(unlike: cake, space, beet/beat, physics/fizz …)
And no sound is represented by a combination of letters which does not logically produce that sound.
(qu, th, ch, sh, ph…)
No accents or symbols which are only found in a limited number of languages.…
So, I end up with the following 24 letters & corresponding sounds from English:
Letter | Sound | |
Like English | Not like | |
a | bat | art |
b | bat | |
d | dot | |
e | bet | me - err |
f | fit | |
g | got | gin |
h | hit | |
i | hit | ire |
j | job | |
k | kit | |
l | lit | |
m | mat | |
n | not | |
o | not | note |
p | pat | |
r | rat | |
s | sat | is |
t | tap | |
u | pull | gull |
v | vat | |
w | wit | |
x | axe | |
y | yob | ivy |
z | zap |
Eliminating (from a qwerty keyboard): c & q
I have lost these extremely common sounds:
u(cup) – e(err) – th(thin) – th(this) – ch(chat) - sh(shop)
Which is a pity, but trying to get them back would introduce complications I don't want.
No capital letters.
The end result is that you can pronounce any word you see printed & you can write any word you hear.
