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THE WESTERN WRITING SCRIPT

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1	a|	in	father Nazi drama bat pecan British: (as above and in) after (etc)
2	ae|		Scottish: gaelic
3	ah|		ah! dahlia mitzvah
4	al|		calm almond British: salve
5	ar|		British: art harmony far
6	are|		British: are
7	arre|		British: bizarre
8	as|		bas-relief
9	au|		British: laugh
10	e|		entente
11	er|		British: Derbyshire
12	ua|		guard
13	uar|		British: guard

Commentary: this is the phone which is still one of the two general continental European pronunciations of the alphabetic letter a, qv the Ache gram, and the Up gram, inherited from the Greek alphabet, via the Etruscan and Latin scripts where it has the same value.

proposing the och gram (number 02) to replace the 2 alternate ways the phone, bolded in "Ach" and in the example words below, can currently be spelt.

1	ch|	in	Sassenach (Scots): loch (German): Bach
2	kh|		(Arabic transcription): Khomeni

Commentary:

proposing the foe gram, (number 03) to replace the 8 alternate ways the phone, bolded in "fair" and in the example words below, can currently be spelt.

1	f|	in	flourishing
2	fe|		life
3	ff|		effort suffer off
4	ft|		soften often
5	gh|		rough enough laugh
6	pf|		German: pfennig
7	ph|		phenomena philosophy
8	u|		British: lieutenant

Commentary:

1	a|	in	idea various scarcely
2	ai|		air repair
3	air|		British: air repair
4	ar|		British: various scarcely
5	are|		British: aware hare
6	e|		ere
7	ea|		bear year
8	ear|		British: bear year
9	eir|		British: their
10	ere|		British: where ere
11	re|		here

Commentary:

1	d|	in	graduate verdure soldier educate drive
2	ch|		British: spinach
3	dg|		judge gadget badger
4	dj|		adjective
5	g|		genesis magic energy origin British: goal Gillian gill
6	ge|		strange barge singe
7	gg|		suggest
8	j|		just judge

Commentary:

1	au|	in	beauty
2	eu|		pseudonym rheumatism
3	ew|		grew view new
4	ieu|		American: lieutenant
5	o|		to do movement lose
6	oe|		shoe
7	oo|		too food boon root
8	ou|		group route wound
9	ough|		through
10	u|		luminous cruel rumor vacuum American: buoy
11	ue|		true sue
12	w|		British: new
13	wo|		two

Commentary:

1	gn|	in	align sovereign sign gnat gnaw gnome gnosis gnu
2	kn|		know knight
3	mn|		mnemonic
4	n|		never eternal even
5	ne|		humane
6	nn|		millennium cannibal
7	pn|		pneumatic

Commentary:

1	ew|	in	sew
2	o|		old strove hope open holy
3	oa|		roaming oat approach
4	oe|		goes foe
5	ol|		folk
6	oo|		brooch
7	ou|		mould soul
8	ough|		though
9	ow|		grow own follow bow
10	owe|		owe

Commentary:

1	a|	in	importance moral radiance
2	ar|		inward
3	e|		present influence
4	ia|		special
5	ie|		ancient
6	io|		vision
7	o|		Europe fathom choir
8	oo|		good look
9	ou|		various
10	oul|		could would
11	u|		full distinguish queen assuage genius suave suede
12	w|		wish aware twenty
13	wh|		whether whisper when white

Commentary:

1	ais|	in	aisle
2	ei|		either
3	eigh|		height
4	i|		strive time kind
5	ie|		denied die
6	ig|		sign
7	igh|		mighty thigh
8	is|		isle
9	uy|		buy
10	ui|		guide beguile
11	y|		flying my type thy sky cycle
12	ye|		lye bye dye

Commentary:

1	es|	in	hides besides
2	s|		optimism is cosmic stars bosom
3	se|		those oppose rise nose
4	ss|		dissolve
5	z|		ozone zealous zoo
6	ze|		realize size blaze adze
7	zz|		quizzical sizzling gizzard

Commentary:

1	b|	in	best obdurate cob alphabet
2	bb|		cabbage bubble
3	pb|		Campbell (see also the may gram ex.7 mp|)

Commentary:

1	au|	in	German:auf
2	ou|		out doubt foundation mouth
3	ough|		slough bough
4	ow|		allow bow
5	owe|		bowed

Commentary:

1	bd|	in	bdellium
2	d|		delicate
3	dd|		madder
4	ed|		fined
5	ld|		could would
6	tt|		some American: matter

Commentary:

1	g|	in	Spanish name: George
2	gh|		Irish name: Calaghan
3	h|		happy perhaps aha
4	wh|		who whore whole

Commentary:

1	a|	in	abstain have axe
2	al|		salmon salve
3	i|		meringue
4	ua|		guarantee

Commentary:

1	ckg|	in	blackguard
2	g|		signify dogmatic gig dog
3	gg|		wriggle wagging
4	gh|		ghostly aghast
5	tg|		mortgage (see also the all gram ex. ort|)
6	gu|		beguile guest
7	gue|		vague league

Commentary:

1	c|	in	ancient special gracious
2	ch|		crochet
3	s|		sure insurance
4	sci|		conscious omniscient
5	sch|		schwa
6	sh|		wish fashioning shut
7	ss|		assured issued
8	t|		elation salvation initiate
9	xi|		crucifixion

Commentary:

1	a|	in	age save radiant maniac
2	ae|		British gaelic see also
3	ah|		British: dahlia
4	ai|		trait claim aim
5	ao|		British: gaol
6	au|		gauge
7	ay|		lay way
8	é|		passé déja vu
9	ea|		great
10	ei|		reign
11	eigh|		eight sleigh
12	et|		crochet
13	ey|		they convey

Commentary:

1	p|	in	paint impede lip pump tempt
2	pe|		hope
3	pp|		oppose: stripped appropriate

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1	a|	in	attempt dogma
2	ar|		similar
3	e|		intellectual
4	ear|		earthly research
5	eo|		burgeoning
6	er|		under permanent
7	err|		deterred err
8	ir|		circle birth irked
9	or|		work mirror American: rumor
10	ough|		thorough
11	our|		journey English: rumour
12	re|		ogre
13	u|		suppose upon
14	ur|		turn occur
15	ure|		nature
16	urr|		occurred

Commentary:

1	th|	in	depth thing truth thigh
2	fth|		twelfth

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number 30) instead of the 8 alternate ways the phone, bolded in "mea'sringl" and in the example words below, can currently be spelt.

1	a|	in	anyone many
2	ai|		said
3	e|		ever well: element
4	ea|		endeavor spread deaf head
5	ei|		leisure
6	eo|		leopard
7	ie|		friend
8	u|		bury

Commentary:

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proposing the gigue gram (number 31) instead of the 6 alternate ways the phone, bolded in "mea'sring" and in the example words below, can currently be spelt.

1	c|	in	physician
2	g|		gigue
3	ge|		fuselage rouge
4	j|		déja vu, jongleur
5	s|		division Asia conclusion pleasure
6	z|		azure

Commentary:

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proposing the rue gram (number 32) instead of the 5 alternate ways the phone, bolded in "mea'sring" and in the example words below, can currently be spelt.

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1	r|	in	enrich rabid temporal
2			rare hare
3	rh|		rheumatic
4	rr|		torrent
5	wr|		wretched wright

Commentary:

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proposing the itch gram (number 33) instead of the 10 alternate ways the phone, bolded in "mea'sring" and in the example words below, can currently be spelt.

1	a|	in	menace savage language
2	e|		effect knowledge peculiar England
3	ei|		sovereign foreign
4	eo|		pigeon
5	i|		gives in
6	ie|		varied
7	o|		women
8	u|		vacuum
9	ui|		building biscuit
10	y|		yet mystical system energy

Commentary:

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proposing the ink gram (number 34) instead of the 3 alternate ways the phone, bolded in "mea'sring" and in the example words below, can currently be spelt.

1	ng|	in	long young clinging
2	n|		conquering angle English think function
3	ngue|		tongue meringue

Commentary:

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proposing the eve gram (number 35) instead of the 11 alternate ways the phone, bolded in "each" and in the example words below, can currently be spelt.

1	ae|	in	encyclopaedia
2	ay|		quay
3	e|		these she ego extreme
4	ea|		mean treated
5	ee|		seek freedom devotee
6	ei|		obeisance seized either (see also the eyed gram ex. 2)
7	eo|		people
8	i|		elite
9	ie|		achieve believer shield
10	oe|		foetus foetid
11	y|		American: buoy

Commentary:

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proposing the chew gram (number 36) instead of the 4 alternate ways the phone, bolded in "each" and in the example words below, can currently be spelt.

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1	c|	in
2	ch|		which chain teacher
3	t|		nature ritual question
4	tch|		match wretched

Commentary:

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proposing the odd gram (number 37) instead of the 6 alternate ways the phone, bolded in "mea'sringl" and in the example words below, can currently be spelt.

1	a|	in	what wanton wad was
2	au|		because American: pauper
3	ho|		honor
4	o|		from orient not off on often
5	ou|		cough
6	ow|		knowledge

Commentary:

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proposing the vow gram (number 38) instead of the 4 alternate ways the phone, bolded in "of" and in the example words below, can currently be spelt.

1	f|	in	of
2	v|		very convince
3	ve|		cave
4	vv|		savvy

Commentary:

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proposing the up gram (number 39) instead of the 4 alternate ways the phone, bolded in "us" and in the example words below, can currently be spelt.

1	o|	in	some mother other love thorough tongue
2	ou|		trouble touch
3	ough|		borough thorough
4	u|		utmost under must study utter

Commentary:

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proposing the sigh gram (number 40) instead of the 10 alternate ways the phone, bolded in "us" and in the example words below, can currently be spelt.

1	c|	in	certain percent accent
2	ce|		force once
3	ps|		psychology psalm
4	s|		sing awesome praxis
5	sc|		science discipline
6	sch|		schism
7	se|		immerse
8	ss|		possible crass message
9	st|		American: hostler
10	sw|		sword (see also the all gram ex. 21 wor|)

Commentary:

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proposing the Über gram (number 41) instead of the other ways the phone, bolded in "Über" and in the example words below, can currently be spelt.

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proposing the re gram (number 42) instead of the other ways the phone, bolded in "re" and in the example words below, can currently be spelt.

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phonogram number: 43 the ridden gram - compelling spelling reasons why the phone d , as in "ridden", should have a gram to itself Commentary:

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phonogram number: 44 the written gram - compelling spelling reasons why the phone t , as in "written", should have a gram to itself Commentary:

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phonogram number: 45 the --- gram - compelling spelling reasons why the phone ' , as in "acne", should have a gram to itself (glottal stop) Commentary:

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phonogram number: 46 the ire gram - compelling spelling reasons why the phone 5 , as in "fire", should have a gram to itself Commentary:

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phonogram number: 47 the lure gram - compelling spelling reasons why the phone Q , as in "lure", should have a gram to itself Commentary:

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phonogram number: 48 the gee gram - compelling spelling reasons why the phone ¨ , as in "gee up", should have a gram to itself the lateral click Commentary:

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phonogram number: 49 the tat gram - compelling spelling reasons why the phone f , as in "tch, tch", or "tat-tat" should have a gram to itself There is one major spelling reason, for English speakers, why this phone needs a gram to itself and that is because there is really no way of writing it. When it is indicated in the dialog of a play, for example, unless the director knows what these orthographies mean to indicate, we hear the actors using such unfamiliar words as "TY$ TY$" or "T1T T1T". the alveolar click Commentary:

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phonogram number: 50 the ___ gram - compelling spelling reasons why the phone & , as in "________", should have a gram to itself prepare the lips to say O while pronouncing 6 Commentary:

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phonogram number: 51 the ___ gram - compelling spelling reasons why the phone O/ , as in "________", should have a gram to itself prepare the lips to say O, or 4, while pronouncing ] Commentary:

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phonogram number: 52 the ___ gram - compelling spelling reasons why the phone __ , as in "________", should have a gram to itself Polish phone Commentary:\f

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printed July 15, 1990. Last worked on March 1996; July 1990.
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