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Started by Legend, Dec 20, 2016, 06:31 AM

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the-pi-guy

If slaughter becomes slawter, then what about lawyer and other words with "law" that doesn't sound like law?
loiyer or something.  

Would be interesting to see a computer attempt a spelling reform to try to get as few alternate pronunciations as possible. Or better yet, let the computer start from scratch and calculate how many letters are needed to get no alternate pronunciations within standard words.
There's pretty much a whole field dedicated to this already.
Help:IPA/English - Wikipedia


There are some languages that have hundreds of sounds not in English, but English uses a pretty small subset of sounds.