Phonetic English

Here I try to demonstrate an alternative spelling system for English.

Since I’ve always found English spelling to be more complicated than it needs to be I’ve been looking for alernatives for a long time.

Long story short: English has many sounds. Trying to create a phonetic spelling using latin letters means you have to have many letter groups. If you want 1 letter to 1 sound mappings, you have to use many diacritical marks. Non-latin spellings are even more impractical. All of this is ignoring the fact that English is too widespread to have a real chance at reforming its spelling.

But I thought I’ll try to do one anyway.

IPA

Only using latin letters