User:Linshee/Orthography redo

Trying to make a new English orthography, with the following goals: Currently there are too many double letters to make it seem normal, though (see ).
 * 1) Only one way to spell every phoneme
 * 2) Easy to read for those familiar with current English orthography
 * 3) Look like an actual orthography with history and not like it was just thought up in 2019

Phonemic spellings are mostly reflective of a hypothetical variety that is and has a  and a, but no , , or. (Note: I do have a cot-caught merger, so transcriptions of words with /ɑ/ or /ɔ/ are a bit iffy.)

Syllabic consonants are considered /ə/ + that consonant. [ŋ] before [k] or [ɡ] is considered an allophone of /n/. [ɝ] and [ɚ] are considered allophones of /əɹ/.

The following morphemes are spelled the same in all environments no matter the actual pronunciation:
 * -s (plural suffix; verb suffix) is always spelled z
 * -es (plural suffix; verb suffix) is always spelled ez
 * -'s (possessive suffix) is always spelled  'z 
 * -ing (all meanings) is always spelled ing

For words that have both stressed and unstressed pronunciations, the stressed pronunciation is always written, with three exceptions:
 * the is always dhe
 * a is always e
 * an is always en

Stress is not marked. Phoneme length is not marked. Capitalization and punctuation follow current conventions.

Some spelling differences between North American and British (plus Australian and NZ) varieties exist, but only when the differences in pronunciation are unexpected: e.g. wutt ("what") in N.A.E., but wat in Br.E.

There are minimal ambiguous spellings with this this system. They can be disambiguated by an optional hyphen. For example, "ruined" is spelled rueind, which could be interpreted as /ru.ɪnd/ or */rʌ.eɪnd/. A hyphen can be added: rue-ind. Another example is "geography" ⟨jie-agrefie⟩.

Consonants
Consonants can be doubled to check the previous vowel; see the vowel section for details. When digraphs check, only the first letter is doubled (e.g. th → tth).

Vowels
There are five vowel graphemes: a, e, i, o, u. The way we get most of English's vowel sounds is by checking vowels, plus digraphs. Vowels are checked by doubling the following consonant sound. If a vowel needs to be checked but has no following consonants, use that vowel + h. This consonant does not need to be in that vowel's syllable. So, the syllables of "petty" (/pɛ/ + /ti/) would be written peh and tie, but the word is written pettie (as if pronounced */ˈpɛt.i/).

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