Welcome to the Solution to English Illiteracy.
The Desperately Needed Idea Whose Time Has Come.

A Brief Look at the Proposed System

This brief description of the proposal proves how simple the proposed system really is, and as a result, how quickly students can learn to read. Reading education will be easier than ever before in learning to read English. Elementary schools, home schooling, and adult education will all greatly benefit.

Every English sound has only ONE spelling, as follows.

1. Use the single vowels (A,E,I,O,U) for the more-often-used "short" vowel sounds as in “That pet did not run.”

2. Add an E or a macron for the "long" vowel sounds as in “Mae Green tried roe glue.” or “Th~ ‘t fr§d tÇfã.”

3.Use AU, OI, OO, and OU for the vowel sounds as in haul, good, oil, and out.

4. Use TH and TT for the sounds in then and thin.

5. Use C only in CH as in chip. Use SH and NG as in wishing. Use ZH for the sound as in muzhik or of S in treasure. Use Q (not QU) and X only for the KW and KS sounds as in qit (quit in English) and exit or qixand (quicksand in English).

6. Use all other consonants as they are used in the sentence, “Yes, Val ‘Zip’ Kim hid our big fan-jet win.”

7. The spelling of proper names, trademarks, etc. is unchanged from English.

8. There are no silent letters and no double letters for a single sound except EE, OO, and TT.

9. All sounds must be shown except (1) the NG sound in NK and NX and (2) the U sound between a vowel other than U and R or L.

Note that in English there are two "long U" sounds that are not spelled differently, the sounds in sue and fuel. The proposed spelling always uses UE for the sound as in sue only. YUE is used for the other U sound. For example, the spelling fyuel for the English word fuel can be considered as an F sound in front of the English word yule. Note also that in English the two different sounds, as in thin and then, are both spelled with TH. The proposed spelling solves this problem by spelling the two different sounds as in the words ttin (thin in English) and then.

Two simple memory aids summarize the above:

Mae Green lied, "Joe Blue and Kevin 'top-gun' Wood haul our oil."
Qit mezhuring fish which yuez this ttin box.

The first sentence contains all fourteen English vowel sounds. The second sentence contains all six single consonant sounds represented by two letters, which are underlined for highlighting only; it is not a rule of spelling. The two sentences combined contain all of the single consonant sounds. The WH combination represents two sounds, first an H sound, then a W sound. For consistency with the CH, SH, TH, and ZH sounds and present English usage, the WH spelling is retained.