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First Universal Change - EY

This change seems so universal it can’t have any awkward spellings.  All words that end in an long A sound, especially those spelled -AY and -EY shall all be -EY.

PLAY      PLAE      PLEY DAY        DAE        DEY WAY       WAE       WEY AWAY     AWAE     AWEY STAY      STAE      STEY ESSAY   ESSAE   ESSEY SAY        SAE        SEY CHARDONNAY    SHARDONAE    SHARDONEY CLAY      KLAE     KLEY ARRAY   ARAE    AREY LAY        LAE       LEY RAY       RAE       REY JAY        JAE        JEY GAY       GAE       GEY HAY       HAE       HEY YAY       YAE        YEY PAY       PAE        PEY CAY      KAE        KEY BAY      BAE      BEY MAY    MAE      MEY TRAY   TRAE    TREY HOORAY  HURAE  HUREY FRAY   FRAE    FREY SPRAY   SPRAE   SPREY SLEIGH   SLAE    SLEY WEIGH   WAE     WEY NEIGH   NAE      NEY The AE version is shown sort of to show the more awkward spelling.

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Basics - Vowels

There are so many vowels with so many sounds that it makes any and all rules useless.  So here we are going to set up some VOWEL RULES to start off.  First off we’re going to use common vowel sounds then we are going to take common spellings to differentiate diphthongs.  Mostly doubles but also two 

There is only one sound A makes that only it makes and that is the A in apple.  Therefore a single a makes that sound.

The other typical sound made by A (without help) is A as in bar, auto, etc.  But it is also shared with another vowel O and sometimes E and I.  We’re going to use O to represent O and OO will represent long U so, we will use AA to represent this sound. baar, aato.  This one is a difficult one, because O is actually a diphthong and if we actually revert back to a completely phonetic English, O will likely represent this soft A sound.  

The diphthong related to A is long A, like in amen, bate, make.  It actually is the diphthong eh finished with a wYe as in they and grey.  Those will not change and some similar ones like day will change to match the -ey’s. But A will be represented by an ae or a-e (with a consonant between).  aemen, bate, make, they, grey, dey.

Next is eh, the only sound made exclusively by e.  Therefore it is E.

EE represents the diphthong that is long e, but phonetically it is IY.

I represents short ih.

YE/Y-E represents long i, altho phonetically it is AAY/OY.

O represents long O (short O is AA) altho phonetically it is UW.

U represents short UH.

OO represents long O.  Altho phonetically it is IW or OUW.

OU represents a weird OU/OO/U hybrid.  Could, would, should, hood, stood.  Altho phonetically it is basically not a vowel but more of a consonant used in place of a vowel.  It would be W.