Tu wat extent can a Spanìsh orthografy bi uzd tu reprizent English?  Even with fonim merjerz, Spanglìsh mey provaid a superior renduring ov Englìsh spiech saundz. Chek out this solusion tu bilingual education.   Pley bakgraund music

Spanglish is a writing system based on the last consistent English alphabet:  the augmented Latin alphabet known as the West Saxon Standard [ca. 1000 AD].  An alphabet is a consistent set of correspondences between sounds and symbols (letters).  Alphabetical writing systems are highly phonemic.  Old English (Anglo Saxon) was over 90% phonemic or consistent with its correspondence table.  Modern English is only 40% phonemic. It is consistent with its pronunciation guide only 40% of the time.  The traditional writing system is mostly logographic but contains phonological cues.

In many cases, English is spelled the way the language was spoken centuries ago. This archaic spelling would not be a problem if words pronounced the same as they were in the 14th Century.  In some cases they are: [pear] is pronounced the same, [ear] isn't.  In most cases where the same spelling has different pronunciations [e.g., live] it is because the pronunciation of some words have changed. There should have been a corresponding change in the spelling [liv laiv]. 

Archaic spelling is often chaotic and confusing due the lack of correspondence between spelling and pronunciation.  Spanglish improves the correspondence between spelling and pronunciation but, without the addition of diacritics, falls short of being a perfect phonemic solution. Normally, every vowel letter  refers to two related sounds: o = awe or owe.

"Idealy, English ot tu contein a singl distinct mark or caractr az the reprisentativ ov ich simpl saund hwich iz posibl for the human vois an breth tu 'atr.  "No mark shwd reprisent twu or thri distinct saundz nor shwd eni simpl saund bi represented bai twu or thri difrent caractrz."
[see pv7 for reference]
Spanglish employs a form of spelling pronunciation.  Words are pronounced the way they are spelled.  Letter pronunciation is provided by the correspondence table.  Words are not respelled unless they cannot be pronounced and recognized.  through has to be respelled as thru in order to be comprehended when pronounced as spelled. throu [thraw-oo] is another possible spelling but this is too close to [throw] to be clearly understood.

Spanglish writes or transcribes modern English speech the way that Saxon speech was transcribed 1000 years ago. The augmented Latin alphabet works as well today as when it was first devised for Anglo Saxon. The Saxon table, with a few minor adjustments such as using sh for /S/ rather than sc, works better than any alternative set of correspondences.  That is, it will produce more understandable spelling pronunciations. The superiority of the Saxon correspondences is found in the diphthongs: ei=eh-ee, ai=ah-ee, au=ah-oo or ae=oo, ow=aw-uu or uh-uu where [uu] is the sound in "hook" and "wool".

ESL students often pronounce English words as if the Vowel Shift never occurred.  It may sound odd but it works.  Most words pronounced with unshifted vowels are still identifiable. The international pronunciation of [idea] /ee-day-ah/ can be understood by English speakers.

The chart [above right] gives two pronunciations of each vowel letter:  [a=ah and ago, e=edge and erg].  The short vowels in the first column are checked - they must be followed by a consonant.  The checked vowel can be indicated by doubling the trailing consonant: [batter, bitter] or by using a grave accent [bàter bìtèr]. In ASCII plain text, a period could be used or one could just live with the ambiguity. [liv=live or leave]

Spanglish involves at least three distinct proposals.  The initial proposal is to use Spanglish as a transitional writing system (or ITA) to teach reading and writing.  As a starting point for learning traditional English spelling (TS), it makes sense to use the original correspondence table.  Spanglish restores the Saxon alphabet and uses this to sound out spellings.  If the pronunciation is intelligible, the traditional spelling is left unchanged. 

Spanglish is normally an extremely broad diaphonic transcription.  With added diacritics, it can also be used for narrow phonemic transcriptions. This makes it possible to use the same script as a pronunciation guide in an Saxon Spanglish or Englic dictionary.  [ day [dye] /dey/,   hat [haht] /haet/,   the [theh] /dhè/ ]. 

Pronunciation guides require a base dialect such as GA [General American] or RP [educated british].  Pure phonemic spelling respells 60% of the words in the dictionary. Phonemic Spanglish would do the same.  Unaccented Spanglish, however, only respells those words that cannot be understood when pronounced according to the simple Spanglish correspondence chart.   Writing samples.

Spelling Reform Proposal 

This is not the first time that a Spanish or Latin based systematic orthography has been proposed for English.  In the 1940's, Member of Parliament, Mont Follick, promoted a Spanish based spelling system he had devised in the 1930's.  He almost pushed through a bill that would have used it to reform English spelling. The compromise to Follick's reform proposal was the approval of a large scale evaluation of an initial teaching alphabet or ITA.¹

Pitman's augmented roman was selected as the ITA.  Pitman's notation was not spanish based but sufficiently consistent to prove the point that alphabetical spelling would be easier to teach and learn.  Those who knew the code could spell any word they could correctly pronounce. If a child could tell a story, they could quickly learn to write it.  The time required to memorize 40 letter shapes and an associated sound has been estimated to be as low as two days [cf. M. McLuhan, Mark Twain].

Children can master a consistent code consisting of 40 paired-associates (or 40 grapheme -phoneme correspondences) in under 3 months.  The chief benefits of using an ITA are (1) less confusion,  (2) a more positive learning experience, (3) quicker success.  After learning how to read and write alphabetically, a child is better able to cope with nonsensical or unsystematic traditional spellings. 

The ITA movement peaked in the early 1970's. The phonics movement enjoyed a resurgence of popularity in the 1990's. In a  phonics class, students may be encouraged to invent their own spellings based on a partial understanding of common English spelling patterns. With Pitman's ITA, they were taught a consistent code (one spelling per sound).  Both approaches work to a point. 
 

Phonics can only deal with the words in the dictionary that are spelled phonetically or alphabetically.  ITA and today's phonics teacher are in agreement up to this point.  The problem is that only 40% of the words in the dictionary -- and even a lower percentage of the words in a sample of text -- are spelled alphabetically.  Many of the word spellings are historically alphabetic. They are spelled as they were pronounced when England adopted the Roman alphabet. 

The phonics teacher may spell the long vowels pale, peel, pile, pole, pool.  The ITA teacher eliminates the magic e but uses the silent e to mark the long vowel: pale-pael, pile-piel, pole-poel. 
Spanglish uses peil as in veil, pail as in aisle and hai-lai, po'l [powl] as in poll, and pul as in guru. 
When it comes to dictionary spellings that are not consistent or alphabetic, ITA continues on with its systematic spelling while some phonics teachers allow invented spellings.  All approaches face difficulties when transitioning to TO.  Latin based Spanglish remains one of the spelling patterns found in English.  It does not have to be unlearned.  To transition to the traditional system, one simply adds other spelling options: 
[e.g, si sing seeng seeing, sealing, ceiling...] until there are 5 spelling patterns associated with each sound.

Spanglish is an attempt to undo the damage done by the great vowel shift.  This is when certain vowels in many words started to be pronounced in a more closed position. a [ah] started to be pronounced [eh],  [eh] started to be pronounced [ih/ee]. REPEAT reh-peh-aht --> rih-peet:   IPA  /ripI:t/.

Spanglish supports an expanded tolerance for phonetic spellings: [ pile-pail, pole-poal/powl, sigh-sai, taste-teist] but finds great utility in standardized word spelling. Spanglish accepts two standards: It retains historical spellings that can be understood when pronounced according to the Saxon alphabet.  It also accepts phonemic spellings.  Spelling according to the dictionary pronunciation guide. With Saxon Spanglish, the two are always close.
 

The most difficult transition is from systematic spelling to unsystematic spelling -- particularly with respect to encoding.  Unsystematic spelling is relatively easy to decode for those who have mastered ITA just as it is relatively easy for those familiar with TO to read passages in Spanglish or New Spelling.  Writing (and spelling) is another matter.

Some adults blame Pitman's ITA for their continuing inability to spell according to the dictionary.  The truth is that spelling unfamiliar words in TO is a problem for everyone.  It is possible to improve ones spelling, however,  by focusing on the spelling patterns with the highest probabilities. After that the only recourse is to memorize the dictionary.

Less than half of the dictionary spellings of English vocabulary are phonetic or alphabetic.  At some point the student has to transition to our illogical spelling system and learn such things as when to add useless silent letters such as the e  at the end of give, have and machine. The only real solution, and the one recommended by Webster, is spelling reform: the elimination of archaic spellings and the substitution of alphabetic spellings.

Phonics classes often suggest that letters have sounds rather than that our language has 34 pure phonemes to which 26 letters or letter combinations (digraphs) have been paired or assigned. (more)  A phonemic approach codes or assigns a symbol only to the significant sound segments (or phonemes) in English speech and once the symbol is assigned it is not reused for another sound.  It is not the limitations of the Roman alphabet but the irrational use of it, e.g., allowing code overlaps, that creates most of the problems.

A phoneme is a range of sounds (allophones) that are treated as equivalent by the users of a particular speech population.  It is the smallest unit of sound that can make a difference in meaning.  A phonemic difference is a change in sound that signifies a change in meaning [pat:pet]. Phoneme boundaries, however, are often "fuzzy."  Language users depend on context to determine which phoneme is being referenced. This is why we can understand the Australian's g' dah-ee  as meaning "good day." 

According to the Saxon alphabet,  [dah-ee] is the correct pronunciation of [day].  Those who want to reference North American pronunciation of this word would have to spell the word dey to rhyme with they rather than dye.
The spelling pronunciation of DAY is close enough for communication so in a broad pan-dialect transcription there would be no necessity to respell.
 

In many cases, English is spelled the way the language was spoken centuries ago.  Matching current pronunciation to this archaic spelling is often a guessing game.  To retain the alphabetic principle, other countries have purged their dictionaries of archaic spellings and respelled these words to match current pronunciation.  English has chosen to stick with historical spelling resulting in a system that is only 40% alphabetic and  much more complicated and difficult to learn that it needs to be.

Spanglish iz alfabetic and beist on continental European & IPA saund valyuz.      Laik moast European languaj orthografiz, Spanglish reteinz the original Latin leter sheip tu saund corespon- dences.

Spanglish is one of several possible ways to reform and regularize English spelling.  Most new code proposals are anglocentric.  They are based on one of the dominant English spelling patterns.  They do not consider the spelling patterns found in the writing systems of other European languages. Spanglish is one of the exceptions.  (See how many ways can you spell DAY)

Spanglish is similar to the code adopted by  the International Phonetic Association (IPA) and nearly identical to the code used to write the Spanish language. 

There is a difference between a code that merges dialect differences and a code that distinguishes peculiar speech patterns.  One is referred to as a broad (phonemic) transcription of speech, the other as a narrow (phonetic) transcription.  Spanglish is phonemic - it codes only differences in sound that convey differences in meaning.  A phonemic basis permits standardized spelling despite dialect differences in pronunciation. 

Spanglish spelling is not fully standardized.  It allows a narrow variation [e.g., day or dey ].  Traditional spelling is accepted when there is a community of English speakers who pronounce the word as it is spelled in TO.  The spelling of words derived from Latin and Greek is standardized but Spanglish pronunciation of these words is international rather than anglocentric [idea = ee-deh-ah]. 
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Thus, the only words that have to be respelled are the ones that fail to produce understandable utterances when they are pronounced as they are spelled.  Double letters usually do not change the pronunciation of a word.  However, Spanglish routinely removes these redundancies [letter becomes letr]. 

TO spellings often have 20 or more possible pronunciations. Known pronunciations often have 14 or more possible spellings, finding the correct one is often a guessing game.
 

Since English has 12 vowels (vocalic phonemes) and Latin has only 5 vowel letters, phonemes either have to be merged or new sound signs invented. 

Spanglish merges the two letters that reference the [ah] sound in the traditional orthography (TO). The sound associated with the letter A in apple is given a new sound sign [æ] as it was by the early scribes who first transcribed Anglo-Saxon using the Latin alphabet (circa 900 A.D.).  The early scribes borrowed several letters from the runic alphabet for the sounds that were not present in Latin such as the eth [ð], thorn [þ] and ash [æ]. These letters are still used in Icelandic which is why they are available in Latin I.

Without diacritics or new letters, Spanglish sacrifices accuracy for simplicity.  However, having two vowel sounds associated with each vowel letter is better than 20, the average for English.  (more)  Spanglish includes three symbols that are no longer the most common way to reference the sound.  [ei-ey] for the vowel sound in they and ape. [ai] for the sound in aisle, ice, eye.  [i-y] for the sound in ski, amino and very. 

Spanglish introduces new sound signs for the short checked vowels found in English but not Spanish.  On a typewriter the short u (as in bull) is marked with an apostrophe (b'ul).  This is easily converted to a grave accented character in HTML (bùl). Another option is to use the w as a vowel in the same way it is used in the word low (bwl). To clearly mark the pronunciation of an ambiguous word, long (free) vowels can be marked when followed by a consonant.  see me hit sweet would be either si mi h'it swit or si mi hit swiit. Logically, there is no need to double vowels but sometimes redundancy may be useful. 

Spanglish supplements Spanish orthography with a few English spelling conventions [h, j, ch, th, ny, w, er].  (In Spanish, the h is silent and the j is associated with the English h sound, ).  y and w are semivowels: By marking syllable boundaries they are similar to consonants.  By being frictionless, they are similar to vowels. 

Follick, who developed a Spanish orthography for English in 1934,  had no use for these letters since he spelled the 5 Ws as hu, huat, huer, huen, huai. Yes was spelled ies.  However, without the semivowels, it is difficult to distinguish year from ear.  "Huat du iu uant this ir" looks odd.  "Wat du yu want this yir" also looks odd but a little less so.

Since the new sound signs (shown in dark yellow below) are not used to write Spanish, Spanglish has minimal impact on the writing of Spanish. English written in Spanglish looks different but can be read without resorting to a key. 

Sins the nu sound sainz (shown below) ar not uzd tu rait Spanish, Spanglish haz minimal impact on the raiting ov Spanish. English riten in Spanglish luks difrent but can bi red without resorting tu a ki.

To those used to the traditional orthography, any consistent phonemic spelling will look odd.

vowels in  words ending in L symbol - sound correspondences in spanglish symbol key word simbl ki w`rd a ah, Ali ei ey ale, ape æ at, Al ai àì I'll, eye e el, end er èr 'r earl, her ì ill, it i  y* eel, eat o ao awl, all ow o' oat, old ù pull u pool *The y is reserved for the unstressed /i:/ [very] Aæl & Ali sed they wud help Erl during the hit ov the dey tu put in hiz nu pul.

BASICS: The basic code is  very  simple

Spanglish restores much of the 10th Centruy Saxon alphabet.  It does not restore all of it because some of the sounds are no longer part of English. Here is an indication of how far the sounds have shifted or become distorted:  ear used to be pronoucned air and still is in the word pear.  pool used to be pronounced paul with the double o representing the extended o.  It could also be pronounced pole but never pool.  good boot= goad bawt pil used to be pronounced peal and peal used to be pronounced pail. www.insound.com/machine A  is always ah or uh. To specify the sound in at, use æ.  Since some English       speakers pronounce at as aht and day as dah-ee, there is usually no need to      change many of the traditional English spellings. However, to reference the sound in     day, use ei  (dei or dey).  Spelling of day in old English.  E is the sound in edge [ej ], in Texas, egg is often pronounced /eig/ as in age /eij/    This shows the close association between e and the so called long A /ei/    The long A sound in Spanglish is a diphthong combining the sounds of e and i    Thus, pale/pail is spelled peil as in vein and ray is spelled rey as in they..     . I corresponds to the vowel in eel and east. The short i does not exist in Spanish:    To reference this sound, use a grave /grav/ accent:  hìd ìll ìt    To reference the sound in eye, ice, my, and I, Spanglish uses ai [ai, ais, mai, ai]..     The schwa apostrophe can be used: 'I and m'y instead of ai and mai.      . O is awe as in loss, when followed by a consonant.  At the end of a syllable O is oh..      English differs from Spanish because the awe sound can come at the end of a sentence.  To avoid      ambiguity, when the awe is at the end of a word it is spelled  l'o lao or law.      . U is used to reference the sound in pool and guru. The short u is always checked      and has to be marked cùd, wùd (wood), gùd fud.  alt. gwd fud     . The correspondences are constant except at the end of a word where  o      becomes oh: frito, amino: and i is replaced with y:  rey they sey pey prey very  y  /i:/ and w /u/ are semivowels and used like consonants to mark syllable      boundaries. w is also used for hu as in huen and huer. Spanglish hu, wen, wer.  à, è, and èr are added to reference the obscure mid vowels in sofa, other, and her    r l m n are named in a way indicating their syllabic use: litèl (little) reduces to litl.    literacy reduces to litracy. Notice that Spanglish retains the ambiguous c.    city = city, center = centr, citris = citris, cactus = cactus, cycle = saikl.

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A complete analysis of the vowels in English speech
24+ English Vowel Phonemes with Spanglish Correspondences
Unfamiliar graphemes may include checked æ  à  ì  è  ò  ô-ao  ù.free ii uu  and diphthongs ai ei é au

12  Pure Vowels		14 Combinations diphthongs
6 Checked	6 Free	6 with i and u	8 with R (schwa)	memory hook
æ	a    aa	ai - mai, ais	ar	air, fair, lair
AX, AT, AS, AND, ASH	ALMS, CALM, AH, a:	AISLE, EYE, MY, ICE	ARE, CAR, FAR	IRE, FIRE, LIAR, lyre
e - ej, let, eg	'r -hèr  f'èrst  èrbàn	ei -  eik, eis, eij	er	èr, èr, bèr, bèry
EDGE, LET, EGG	HER, 1st, bird, urban  3:	ACHE ak, ACE, AGE	AIR, BEAR, BERRY	air, error, bear, berry
ì    i	i     ii	oi  oy  vois	ir  irigat	ir, nir, bir, dir
IT, IN, MIT, IF	EEL, EAT, AMINO, i:	OIL, BOY, VOICE	EAR, IRRIGATE, beer	ear, near, beer, tear
a	ò   ô   ao /o:/	o  oa  owó  /ou/	or	or, or, flor, dor
OX, FOX, POT, OTTER	AWE, OFF, COST, :	OAT, OAK, TOTE, silo	OR, OAR, ORE, aural	or, ore, floor, door
hùk, cùd, wùl	uz, huup, guru	yuz-yus, jus, yu	tur, pur	yur, pyur
HOOK, COULD, WOOL	OOZE, HOOP, GURU	USE-USE, JUICE, YEW	TOUR [tu:r], POOR	YOUR, PURE [pju:r]
à  - àp, càp	a àgo    e thè	au, aut, cau	aur, paur, flaur	the thèg   thai thai
UP, CUP, NUT,  ^	AGO, THE, SOFA,	OUT, NOW, COW	OUR, POWER, FLOUR	the thug   thy thigh

Before rejecting Spanglish as an alternative notation for English, consider the fact that all phonemic notations will look odd to someone brought up on a steady diet of traditional English orthography (TO).  No consistent writing system is going to match the TO more than 50% of the time.  The advantages of alphabetic sound spelling include the ability to spell any word you can pronounce or pronounce any word you see spelled.

While world English has shown tremendous growth, within the U.S. southwest, Spanish has shown the greatest increase. Returning to the original Latin based English alphabet, would decrease the divide.
 

Why not write the same sounds the same way in both languages? The advantages of a common orthography for Spanish and English

If present trends continue, there will be more native Spanish speakers in some states than native English speakers.  To maintain the dominance of English, every effort needs to be made to make it easier for those who have to learn it as a second language.  The easiest change would be to adopt a common orthography.  Why not write the same sounds the same way in both languages?
Groups such as U.S. English and English First have argued that bilingual education and sinage may contribute to our drift away from a nation bound together by a single language. If current trends continue, we could become a nation divided politically along linguistic lines.  Their reactionary solution is to declare English to be the official language of the land. 

The two organizations are leading a drive to stop bilingualism and make English the official language of the United States.  They also support a strong movement in many states to enact legislation declaring English to be the official state language. 

In the end, this may prove to be a short sighted solution because when Spanish speakers outnumber native English speakers, they could play the same game and declare that Spanish be the official language of the State. To maintain the dominance of English, the problems its archaic spelling poses to those learning to read and write needs to be addressed.  The memory task has to be reduced from 400 spellings per sound to 80 or less.

Even if Spanish does not become the de facto language in some states, there are good reasons for developing a simplified spelling system that could be used by speakers of  both languages. A common orthography would make it easier for a bilingual population to communicate and would make English easier to teach and learn. Such a reform would benefit both English speaking and Spanish speaking learners.
 

Simply stated the alfabetic principl implaiz: w'rds thæt raim ar speld the seim   (raims with vein, sane, main, ...) w'rds thæt ar speld the seim raim   (raims with time, I'm, thyme, ....)

After a few lessons, most will find it easier to spell an unfamiliar word in Spanglish than in English.  Learning Spanglish should also improve the student's ability to spell in Spanish and English. 

English is difficult for native Spanish speakers for the same reason it is difficult for early learners.  The orthography is archaic and chaotic.  English speaking school children take nearly four years to achieve the level of reading and writing proficiency that Spanish speaking children achieve in one. 

A partial solution to the bilingual problem might be to adopt a bilingual orthography that would make it easier for native Spanish speakers and others for whom English was not a first language to learn English. 

This is not as outlandish as it may seem at first.  Shortly after the Romans occupied England, there was shared orthography. When the Roman alphabet was first adopted, English was alphabetic and English speakers and Latin speakers wrote the same sounds the same way. 

Over time, the pronunciation of English words changed but instead of changing the spelling, the English retained the archaic spellings.  The result, as Noah Webster noted, was that English words ceased to be spelled alphabetically.  Words were no longer pronounced the way they were spelled.

Adopting Spanglish would realign English spelling with Latin and the orthographies of Europe. 

Ol fonimik raiting sistemz l'uk streinj at ferst.  This iz unavoidabl becoz only 40% of English werdz ar speld foneticly.  The 60% that ar spelt inconsistently wil bi rispelt by an alfabetical raiting sistem. (Spanglish)

References:

Brown,  Bob. (1991). Annotated bibliography on spelling reform. London: The Simplified Spelling Society 
Chall, J. (1967) Learning to read, The great debate, NY: McGraw Hill
Crystal, David (1990) The English Language.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Downing, J (1967) Evaluating the Initial Teaching Alphabet. London: Casseli
Orton, S.T. (1937) Reading, writing, and speech problems in children. Baltimore: Orton Soc. for Dyslexia.
Scragg, DG (1974) A History of English Spelling. Manchester: Univ. Press
Spalding, R. & W. (1957, 91) The writing road to reading. NY: Wm Morrow.
Yule, Valerie & S. Bett. (1998) A bibliography of spelling related books. electronic publication

without diacritics associates two sounds with every vowel.  There are programs that introduce up to 4 sounds per letter going beyond the typical phonics approach of two sounds per vowel.  (See Orton (1937) and Spalding (1957) The Writing Road to Reading.)  Red color coding indicates the Spanglish preferences.

a  (at, ate, want, are, ago, au/w )  other ways to spell vowel sound in ate (pay, paid, they, vein, ... )
e  (end, we, weigh-resume) other ways to spell the vowel sound in end (any, bread, ...) and we (wee,....)
i   (it, like, amino -ski -si) 'it, laik, amino, si
o  (dot, open, do, loss)   dat, owp'en, du, los
u  (up, music, put, guru) other ways to spell the vowel sound in true (few, too, two, ...)

Most phonics programs introduce about 30 phonograms (or sound signs). 
Covering an additional 40 phonograms increases the writing vocabulary from x to y.
The vocabularies of primary school children ranges from 4,000 to 24,000 words.
Phonograms can be taught at a rate of 4 a day.

Uhgly spellings:
tough, thought, though, thaw   -- tof/taf, thot, thow/tho, thao/tho

The a is a key sound sign in Spanglish and merged with two other sounds, ah, uh, and possibly ah-eh or ash.  All the other sound signs have only two associates.  The long e is not used but if it were it would be close to /ei/ as in resume'.  It would not be the ee in /i:l/ (eel).  The system worked because it reverts to the original system before all of the vowel shifts.

All languages change over time.  The way particular words are pronounced change. To keep the writing systems aligned with current pronunciation, it has to be updated. Since the grapheme-phoneme pairings should not be changed, the alternative is to change the spelling on the words that have acquired a new pronunciation. 

Spanglish wants to return to the original grapheme-phoneme pairings, which happen to be the same ones used in other European languages.  English has adopted the practice of keepting the old spellings and effectively changing the GP correspondences.  The problem is that it doesn't work because only half of the words have changed pronunciations. 

Y and W are reserved to mark syllable boundaries in English.  They could, however, be also used as vowels.  The Welsh use W for the sound in hook [hwk].  It makes sense but takes some g used to.l

• Broad band diaphonic representation of speech:  Transcends the dialect issue.
• Maintains a visual relationship with traditional word families
• Does not require retraining for present readers, can be read without a key. (forward compatible)
• Retains access to our heritage of print.  (reading old English is relatively easy, pronunciation and writing are the difficult parts and this would not be carried over very well)  (Old English and Anglo Saxon are retained in present day function words but in other areas have been largely displaced. mSince English retains so little o 

Although the morphemic principle conflicts with the alphabetic or phonemic principle, there may be enough advantages to standardized spelling of morphemes to make it worth the trouble and confusion. For the current version of Spanglish, the plural is s or z rather than s and es.  Standardized morphemic spelling makes it impossible to distinguish between ice (ais) and eyes (ais/aiz).  The plural is sometimes s and sometimes es  (pianos/potatoes) which complicates standardization. Spanglish (ais, aiz, pianoz, potatoz /paw-tah-tohz/.  Unambiguous Phonemic Spanglish (poa-tei-toaz).

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English needs two new letters for the vowel sounds. 

One for the sound of a in pat, cat, which is Saxon /ae/ in liaison and is differnt from a sound in father, car.

Second new vowel letter is for the schwa sound, as a in ago, and the unstressed e in teacher. 

The vowel letters a, e, i, o, u, should be sounded as all nations who use Roman alphabet sound them.

"Oh wy O wy must I dy tody, such a beautiful dy to dy . .etc.
A bison is wot u wosh yor hands in."  -VY on Ozi Strine

[SB] Certainly some of these are legitimate spelling pronunciations: day=dai=dah-ee, die=dee-uh, basin=bah-sihn, wosh=wawsh, your=yaw-or..yawr..
 

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