Better English Orthography Translator

Enhanced English Orthography (Less focused on phonetical accuracy)

Enhanced English Orthography; Soft-C / Soft-SC: C before front vowels (e, i, y) makes the regular ch sound (/tʃ/). SC before front vowels becomes sfh (/s/). Ch after a, o, u makes (/tʃ/) sound. Hard Plosives: Hard C (before back vowels a, o, u), K, and CK are retained. Affricates: Native ch and tch are replaced by cch or cce (e.g., ricch, cacch). Foreign Borrowings: Greek chi (Χχ) /k/ becomes xh instead of ch (e.g., xhemistry, xharacter); Greek /f/ becomes ph (retained for Greek roots like phone); French /ʃ/ becomes sh (e.g., shef). Dental Fricatives: Voiced th becomes dh (e.g., dhe, dhat); unvoiced th is retained. Sibilant Pairs: Unvoiced postalveolar is sh ([ʃ]); voiced postalveolar is zh ([ʒ], e.g., plezher, mezher, garazh). X Matrix: Medial/final /ks/ or /gz/ (e.g., boks); X + back vowels (a, o, u) makes a /ʃ/ sound; X + front vowels (i, e, y) makes a /ʒ/ sound; Latin suffixes -tion/-sion become -xion (e.g., translaxion); -sia suffixes that sound like sh become -xia (e.g., Rusxia). Retroflex Nasal ([ɳ]): GN and KN clusters are preserved as physical markers for a tongue-curling gesture (e.g., knyte, signe). B Rule: Isolated silent B is dropped (e.g., det, dowte), but B is kept after nasal consonants to preserve the [ɱ] sound (e.g., womb, numb). Silent H: Purged from the start of loanwords with vowel adjustments for clarity (e.g., aunest, ier(Heir), aower, gost). Vowel Mechanics: oo = long-oo; ee = long-ee; ea = short-eh (e.g., read as past tense); ea + final e = long-ee trigger for base/present verbs (e.g., reade). Suffix Adjustments: -ight becomes -yte (e.g., nyte, knyte); -ought becomes -aut (e.g., thaut); -our becomes -or (e.g., color, favorite); -ous becomes -os (e.g., cauxios, tremendos). Too much freedom and democracy right? Etymological Corrections: Island becomes Ieland (stripping the fake historical s). Final Pronounced Vowels: Stressed -é becomes -aie (e.g., Cafaie, Rezumaie); final pronounced long-ee uses -ee (e.g., apostrophee). Dialectal Flexibility: Silent T words are spelled based on spoken pronunciation (e.g., lissen); unstressed schwa vowels are left flexible for regional accents.

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