THE BBC TEXT SPELLING GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION
AS A BASE FOR
ENGLISH SPELLING ON ONE PAGE
ITS USE FOR THE DICTIONARY PRONUNCIATION GUIDE,
AND BEGINNERS’ FIRST LEARNING
THE BBC TEXT SPELLING GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION is used as a base in English Spelling Rules on One Page, for Dictionary Pronunciation Keys and for the first sound-symbol relationships learned by beginners. It needs only three amendments -
Some differences for long vowels, which in the One Page Rules use simple à è ì ò ù for long vowels as pairs with the ‘short’ vowels a e i o u;
Unstressed vowels are not spelled with ‘uh’
Unexpected stress can be indicated by doubled consonants, as in umbrella, not by acute accents, to avoid confusion with the grave accents on long vowels.
Consonants b as in bat, ch as in church, d as in day, f as in fat, g as in get,h as in hat , hl as in Welsh llan, j as in Jac,k k as in king (c is also possible as an alturnativ as in present spelling), kh as in Scottish loch or German ich, l as in leg, m as in man, n as in not, ng as in sing, ngg as in finger, nk as in thank , p as in pen, r as in red, s as in sit ,sh as in shop, t as in top, th as in thin, dh as in there (dh can be used when needed for lerners, but is generally not necessary) v as in van, w as in will, y as in yes,z as in zebra, zh as in mezher/measure
Vowels
a as in hat, arr as in marry, e as in get ,err as in merry, i as in sit, irr as in mirror, o as in top, orr as in sorry, u as in cup, urr as in hurry
ay as in day or bàsis, ee as in meet or mèdium, eer as in deer, igh as in high or mìnding, oa as in gòld or boat, ew as in new or mùsic (i.e. other options when accents are not technologically practicable)
aa as in father, ar as in bar, er and ur (stressed) as in perturb and further, air as in hair, aw as in law , or as in corn
ow as in cow , oy as in boy, oo as in boot, uu as in book
oe as in French peu or coeur, oey as in French fauteuil, ue as in French vu or German fünf
The next step
Learners then move quickly from these basic sound-symbol relationships into the morfo-fonemic modifications that make English Spelling Rules on One Page so close to the appearance of present spelling.
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