Re: Pronunciation

Good point Russ, and I think you have the right answer.  All I can say is 
that the English phonetic conversion in truespel.com gives USA accent only 
and as taken from the spoken words of the American Heritage Talking 
Dictionary and m-w.com.  Even then words can have more than one 
pronunciation and we use the majority one for the converter. Going with the 
majority, the majority of native English speakers in the world is general 
American (73% of the world's native English speakers live in USA and 
Canada).

It's a diverse world out there.  But we do know that "phonemic awareness" is 
a key to reading.  To help understand phonemes, Truespel supplies a simple 
English friendly, keyboard friendly way to handle phonemes.

Tom Z



>From: Russ Taylor <russssch-/E1597aS9LT10XsdtD+oqA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>--- fshdt <tibbetts-al8Ev/14v5k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > For me the confusion and difficulty with truespel is
> > "That kwik baezh faaks jumpd in thu air oever eech
> > thhin daug. Look out,  ie shout,  for heez foild yue uggen."
>
>The real confusion for me is that I did not understand
>this sentence when I read it aloud. . . .
>I guess also the fact that 'Truespel' (sic) caters for
>American accents puts me off a great deal to be
>honest.






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