Regūlarīzed Ānglish Orthogrəfy
If you can speak English to any capacity, you know that the spelling is a terrible mess. Furthermore, many people have created their own spelling reforms, that are often quite bad due to various reasons.¹ I’ve made a few myself, but I always end up disliking them due to them falling within the uncanny valley. So I wondered what a spelling reform would look like if I made the main premise “current English spelling, but more regular.”
I ended up liking the result, so I’ve shared it on this webpage. (And I likely will make a YouTube video in the future.)
The English short vowels [a, ɛ, ɪ, ɒ, ʌ] are represented by a, e, i, o, u; their long counterparts [ei, i, ai, u, ju] are written ā, ē, ī, ō, ū. The second long counterpart for [ɒ], [ou], is written ô. /ər/ is written er, therefore e before r (e.g. chair) is written air.
When the long vowels are the last vowel in a word, they are written slightly differnetly; ā, ē, ī, ū are written a_e, e_e, i_e, u_e, where the underscore stands for some consonant (crane, like; not crān, līk).