This is a bulletin making it's way around myspace, and I'm at a loss for words...lol
BEGINNER'S GUIDE to CUT SPELLING
By: SSS (simplifyd,Speling,Socyety)
http://www.spellingsociety.org/kids/done.html
* CUT LETTERS AS FOLLOWS:
Rule 1: Cut letters irrelevant to the sound:
A in head>hed, B in doubt>dout, C in except>exept, D in adjust>ajust, E in are>ar,
GH in caught>caut, H in when>wen, I in friend>frend, K in knife>nyf wife>wyf, OuL in would>wud,
could>cud, should>shud.
N in condemn>condem, O in people>peple, P in receipt>receit, S in island>iland,
T in fetch>fech, U in build>bild, W in write>rite, Y in key>kee,
and in many other spelling patterns.
Rule 2a: Cut unstressed vowels before L,M,N,R
A as in pedal>pedl, and likewise circl, peepl.
E as in camel>caml, and likewise systm, gardn, singr.
I as in lentil>lentl, and likewise victm, raisn, Cheshr.
O as in pistol>pistl, and likewise fathm, reasn, sailr.
U as in consul>consl, and likewise albm, murmr.
AI as in mountain>mantn as in de word man.
OU as in glamour>glamur. The u between M and R will sound as if u say Saturday.
Rule 2b: Cut vowels in regular endings
as -ED>-D in washed>washt.
-ES>-S in washes>washes. (keep same writing here)
-ING>-NG in washing>washin.(dilit/delete G)
-ABLE>-BL in washable>washabl.
Rule 3: Write most double consonants single and ad a 'T' wen it bicoms past tens
as in ebb>eb, lock>lok, passion>pasion, intelligent>intelijent, well>wel, bottle>botl, hopped>hopt, hopping>hoping, accommodate>acomodate.
* SUBSTITUTE LETTERS AS FOLLOWS: 1 F for GH & PH: rough>rof, photograph>fotograf
2 J for soft G: ginger>jinjer, judge>juj
3 Y for IG: sigh>syh, sight>syht, sign>syn
4 f for gh: cough>cof and dobl ff wil omit one f: coffee>cofee.
* FEWER CAPITALS & APOSTROPHES: Write only proper names with capitals:
France but french, Paris but parisian,
Augustus but august, Saturn but saturday. U keeps de sound as in Spanish or as in double
Write apostrophes only to link words:
she'd, it's, we'l, let's,
not to show omission or possession:
oclok, hadnt, Freds house will bicom/becom haus, our neibors hauses.
If u lern how tu reed Spanish, German or Italian,it wud bi/be eesier for u tu catch on.
Rule/rul 4: Omit leter e wen iusin/using words as Like>lyk, die>dy, time>tym, bye>by and so on.
Rule/rul 5: We'l use in past tens dis new form or ritin. Exempl.
De word/verb 'simplify' wil ad only a 'd' at de end as dis... simplifyd
De word/verb 'dy' wil ad only a 'd' for past tens as dis... dyd
De word/verb 'clasify' wil ad only a 'd' olso as dis... clasifyd and so on.
As for doz/those words dat make a sound as bi-sexual de speling wil chanj tu,'Bysexual'.
Just folow dat patern.
De word 'my' wil rimein in de same way but 'me' wil chanj tu 'mi.' Ex.
My oncl/uncle was talkin tu mi.
Rule/rul 6: Omit leter C in words as black, smack, sock,
Exempl. blak, smak, sok and so on.
Rule/rul 7: In plurl words u wil only hav to ad 'is'. Exempl.
Cuky/cooky bicoms cukis
city bicoms citis
cuty bicoms cutis
All words dat in plurl ends wid ies will bicom only as is.
baby bicoms babis
Rule/rul 8: ius/use words wid dobl oo & replace it wid leter U Ex.
book>buk say it in de same way just diferent speling so don't get confiust/confused.
took>tuk, spooky>spuky, look>luk, drool>drul. Got it? easy>isy?
In de word 'door', we'l rite it iusin only wan/one o but de pronunciation wil rimein/remain de same way.
THE CUT SPELLING HANDBOOK
"CUT SPELLING: a Handbook to the simplification of written English by omission of redundant letters"
prepared by Christopher Upward
2nd (revised and expanded) edition, 1996,
Birmingham, UK: Simplified Spelling Society, 340+viiipp, ISBN 0 9506391 3 3
Price £10/US$20 + airmail outside Europe £3/US$6.
From: Literature Secretary.
THE SIMPLIFIED SPELLING SOCIETY
"Working for planed change to English spelling for the benefit of learners and users throughout the world"
Pete Boardman concludes: 'We hav much work tu du bifor/before we hav a sistem of speling tu ofer tu de public.
But we now hav an aprouch dat continius tu motivate dat work by de promis it ofers of suxes in
de long run, wher ther was non in de past. De best part of RITE is dat it welcoms de contributions
of douting Thomases. Copy & paste dis mesej tu ol peepl u wud lyk tu let kno.Plees at leest tu two persons.
Hir/here ar som words I merly use...
http://www.spellingsociety.org/kids/done.htm
dis,dat,wen, wat, der/there, den/then, dan/than,trofy,Pijama,frend,Wensday,com, watever,
somwher,gud
Februery,
wan>one
evryday
peepl
gud niws/good news
apeel
gon
ferst/first
as it is taut tu children now... as it is taught tu children now.
enrol
