Euspell
Spelling Reform: An Engineering Approach

English spelling,
reformed by software.

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Four hundred years of spelling reform failed for two reasons: they asked people to apply rules by hand, and they could not tell whether read rhymes with reed or red. Euspell™ treats both as engineering problems.

205505
entries in the lexicon, each carrying its parts of speech
164067
left exactly as they are — almost precisely four fifths
41438
that change, and keep their silhouette when they do

The restraint is the design

No new letters. No diacritics. Proper nouns left alone. Most of the engineering went into deciding what not to change.

Words that change
nightniht
friendfrend
peoplepeeple
Spellings English used to have
debtdett
tonguetung
buildbild
Untouched
school
knife
because
said
psychology

It reads the sentence, not just the word

A rule that maps letters to letters cannot know whether records is a noun or a verb — and in Euspell they are spelled differently. Every entry carries its parts of speech, and a classifier reads the surrounding words to settle what a rule cannot.

She recordz the records.

That distinction is the reason the reform can be applied by a program at all, and it is what no previous proposal could offer — none of them could see context.

One engine, many surfaces

None of these re-implement the reform. Every one of them runs the same converter, on your own device.

No account, no server, no telemetry — nothing you read is uploaded. The source is published under the GPL-3, and the lexicon data under CC BY-SA 4.0.