Truespel English Dictionary

Truespel establishes a new phonetic alphabet for English and a new convention for showing stress in a word. Using this notation, you can indicate exactly how you pronounce any word, including regional dialects and most foreign words.

Truespel is the World's first notation for phonemic spelling that does all the following:

shows syllabic stress

uses common English spelling patterns

does not augment the alphabet with any special characters or symbols

The objective of truespel is to provide a consistent notation that enables you to spell according to the sounds (or phonemes) you hear. Conversely, it enables you to read aloud any dialect or language spelled in truespel. Truespel is far better for writing dialect than traditional writing systems or non-qwerty guides. One of the goals of the truespel foundation is to form a phonemic anglocentric basis for learning, speaking, reading, and analyzing most of the major languages.

Since truespel gives a written rendering of the spoken word, it provides the capability to spell slang and accents as easily as General American. In effect, you spell what you hear. This both celebrates our diversity and enriches our communication. Dialects can be clearly unambiguously spelled.

Truespel does not dictate a spelling standard for words, but does dictate a new standard for spelling the sounds in words.

Truespel can be learned by analyzing the following story:

"That kwik baezh faaks jumpd in thee air oever eech thhin daug. Look out, ie shout, for heez foild yue uggen." (That quick beige fox jumped in the air over each thin dog. Look out, I shout, for he's foiled you again.)

Associate the sounds with the truespel way of spelling them, and you have the 40 phonemes of GA English. The only other truespel rules are that an apostrophe precedes a glottal stop (glo'le), and a quote precedes a stressed vowel in the absence of
a double consonant.

For now, for those who want an easy-to-read and accurate pronunciation guide in General American accent, there is truespel. Many applications are possible.

For the first time common spreadsheet functions can analyze
the sound patterns of USA English.

Address comments to: truespel@hotmail.com.