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From: poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser)
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Subject: Re: Unifon alphabet / font
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Date: 10 Jun 91 06:18:34 GMT
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In article <1991Jun10.001445.3141@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> ping@hub.toronto.edu (Ping Lin) writes:
>"...Unifon `is based on the principle that the spelling of all
> words should correspond to their phonetic pronunciation.'"

The book cited is not really correct. Unifon is a phonemic orthography
for English, not a phonetic one. The principle that it embodies is
that the spelling of all words should correspond to their phonemic
representation. It is one of the most recent of a long line of proposals
to make English spelling more surface phonemic, eliminating both
morphophonemic spellings and outright non-phonological spellings.
The letters themselves are, to my eye, quite ugly.

Bill