[Ads-l] The Standard Phonographic Dictionary (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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> 
> Truespel doesn't use special symbols=2C so that system=2C which does=2C is = like the others.  The key is using regular letters on the
> keyboard to keep = phonetics simple.  Ben Franklin dabbled in special phonetic symbols and gav= e up.  Not practical.  

Perhaps he should have used a Dvorak keyboard?


>  And he knew what
> was practical.  For instance I wear=  Ben's bifocals even today.  

The Smithsonian would like them back, please.

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