e/NuEnglish

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has glosseng: NuEnglish (from New English) is a proposed form of written English spelled phonemically. That is, NuEnglish has a perfect one-to-one correspondence between the spoken units (phonemes) and the written units (graphemes), at least for some dialects of English. It does not distinguish between the vowels of father and bother, for example, which are only merged in North American English, so it does not have a one-to-one correspondence for every dialect. Although NuEnglish does not include the pronunciations for every English dialect, it uses a minimalist version of the most used dialect (General American) in order to make learning to read as easy as possible. Although all readers do not speak this way themselves, it will be easy to read because (1) they are very familiar with it from hearing some form of "Standard Broadcast English" on radio and television, (2) they can understand the dialect of almost every English speaker, (3) the phonemes of all the different dialects are very similar to the phonemes used in NuEnglish (only linguists can distinguish some of them), and (4) the context will provide clues to the meaning which can be observed at length, as opposed to the need to...
lexicalizationeng: NuEnglish
instance ofe/English spelling reform

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