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The Read Lexicon: a spelling dictionary for the Shavian alphabet following the rhotic Received Pronunciation standard.
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Schedule #36

Closed mwgamera closed 1 year ago

mwgamera commented 1 year ago

It's certainly one of these words for which multiple Shavian spellings need to be accepted, but if I understand the 3rd rule of the spelling principlesβ€”β€œChoose the RP pronunciation closest to General American”—it appears that the ReadLex spelling of schedule and related words should use 𐑕𐑒- rather than 𐑖-. Of course, it depends on how exactly you define RP and GA, so I might be wrong. There is also a discrepancy in treatment of //β€―jβ€―// where scheduled is currently 𐑖𐑧𐑑𐑡𐑀𐑛 but unscheduled is 𐑳𐑯𐑖𐑧𐑛𐑿𐑀𐑛. The web interface also gives 𐑳𐑯𐑖𐑧𐑛𐑡𐑀𐑛 as supposedly GA which seems completely wrong as well.

Shavian-info commented 1 year ago

Thanks for picking up the inconsistency. The 𐑕𐑒𐑧𐑛𐑿𐑀 pronunciation is still controversial outside the US and considered by many to be an Americanism. It seems to be much more accepted among younger speakers. But for now, I'll stick with 𐑖𐑧𐑛𐑿𐑀 and note the General American alternative 𐑕𐑒𐑧𐑛𐑿𐑀. The weirdness of 'unscheduled' arose simply because in preparing a dictionary with so many entries, some automation is required and this one slipped through.

mwgamera commented 1 year ago

I take this as 𐑕𐑒𐑧𐑑𐑡𐑀 being judged as not acceptable RP pronunciation, and that's okay. Thanks for making it consistent and fixing/adding GA variants.