IPA in spreadsheets (was: antedating "hobo" 1885)

Fri May 29 03:48:53 UTC 2009

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Nathan Sanders <
Nathan.Sanders at williams.edu> wrote:

Truespel may or may not be useful for helping children learn to read (I
> suspect not, since it's
> just a second system for them to learn on top of regular English
> spelling)

I also strongly suspect not, given how unintuitive some of the sample
transcriptions are.

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