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Shavian-info / readlex

The Read Lexicon: a spelling dictionary for the Shavian alphabet following the rhotic Received Pronunciation standard.
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New entries + a few typo fixes #18

Closed inferno986return closed 2 years ago

inferno986return commented 2 years ago

Added game console manufacturers and names, WhatsApp and Trustpilot, London airports, Kingsley Read's successor scripts + misc words including local alternative pronunciation for Tewkesbury

inferno986return commented 2 years ago

Thanks for your work on this. Some of the common words I've added to the main dictionary as a result of your suggestions. I have requested changes to a number of other words to reflect the spelling principles for the Kingsley Read Lexicon which are intended to ensure maximum mutual intelligibility between varieties of English, and to conform to the Androcles rhotic Received Pronunciation standard.

This has been an interesting exercise. I appreciate the time and feedback on this pull request. I used the to-shavian live demo (https://nwah.github.io/to-shavian/) as a basis and then tried correlating the words with my accent (my accent is mostly Received Pronunciation being British myself). I like the to-shavian tool but the longer I use it, the more I notice it doesn't always follow Kingsley Read's conventions.

Shavian-info commented 2 years ago

Thanks for these additions. I did wonder what your accent was because some of your suggestions seemed to reflect a British accent (Tewkesbury) and some an American accent. 'to-Shavian' says it uses the ISLEDict.txt from Illinois Speech and Language Engineering Group, which is clearly an American English pronouncing dictionary. This means it won't map to Shavian properly, e.g. the letter 𐑪 is unlikely to ever appear.