Re: Pronunciation

Stephanie,

That's fine.  These phonetic spellings in truespel.com are majority usa 
forms from talking dictionaries.  Even in usa they are said differently.  I 
think Mert sorted it out.  If the accent you teach is comprehensible, it's 
OK.  In fact what sense does it make to teach usa accent in a british 
speaking area.  Not much.

If one is teaching from a phonemic awareness point of view, I think it 
should be interesting to point out pronunciation differences of different 
accents.  IPA does that, but it's so English unfriendly.  SAMPA is at least 
more keyboard friendly.  Truespel is more English friendly.  Studies show 
that best readers have good "phonemic awareness".

Tom Z

Stephanie Noke wrote: 

>For me as an Aussie/British speaker I cannot relate to the pronunciation 
>specified in truespel.  In the example Dick shows, I would never say /daug/ or 
>/faaks/.  








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