8. Summary of the Rules for e-speec

1. The letters b, d, f, g, h, j, l, m, n, p, r, t, v, w and y retain their traditional uses.
2. Short vowels a, e, i, o and u are spelt the same.
3. Long vowels a, i, o and u are indicated by an 'e' on the end of the word - for example the sound of 'a' in 'mate' is long. But long 'e' is spelt 'ee'. When long ‘u’ is preceded by a ‘y’ sound it is spelt ‘yu’, as in ‘byuty’ (beauty).
4. At the end of a word, the letters i, o and u represent the long sounds. At the end of a word, long, accented 'e' is spelt 'ee'; long 'a' is spelt 'ay'. Short, unaccented 'i' at the end of a word is spelt 'y'.
5. The short, unstressed 'u' sound is spelt 'a', as in 'cola'. The short sound as in the second syllable of 'carrot' is spelt 'e' - giving carret.
6. A consonant is doubled when the preceding vowel is short, and when the syllable is stressed - as in 'hurry'.
7. The 'k' sound is spelt with a 'c', as in 'cat', 'cite' (kite).
8. The 's' sound is spelt with an 's', as in 'cats', 'seeling' (ceiling).
9. The 'z' sound is spelt with a 'z', as in 'zip', ‘treez’ (trees).
10. The 'x' sound is spelt 'cs', as in 'acsent' (accent), 'bocs' (box).
11. The sound 'ar' is spelt 'ar', as in 'far', 'farther' (father).
12. The sound 'er' is spelt 'er' as in 'her', 'berd' (bird).
13. The sound 'air' is spelt 'air', as in 'fair', 'bair' (bear, bare).
14. Thew sound 'ou' is spelt 'ou', as in 'out', 'cou' (cow).
15. The sound 'eer' is spelt 'eer', as in 'beer', 'heer' (hear, here).
16. The sound 'oi' is spelt 'oi' as in 'boil', 'boi' (boy, buoy).
17. The short sound 'oo' as in 'good' is spelt 'oo', as in 'cood' (could).
18. The sound 'j' is spelt 'j' as in 'jug', buj (budge).
19. The sounds 'w' and 'wh' are both spelt 'w', as in 'wize' (wise), 'wi' (why).
20. The sound 'ch' is spelt 'ch', as in 'wich' (which, witch).
21. The sound 'cw' is spelt 'cw', as in 'cween' (queen), 'cwire' (choir).
22. The sound 'ng' is spelt 'ng', as in 'song', but when followed by a 'c' sound it is spelt 'n', as in 'minc' (mink).
23. The ending traditionally spelt '-ful' is spelt '-fl', as in 'lustfl' (lustful).
24. The ending traditionally spelt '-ous' is spelt '-us', as in 'deevius' (devious).
25. The sound 'sh' is spelt 'sh', as in 'cash', 'rashn' (ration).
26. The sound 'zh' is spelt 'zh', as in 'divizhn' (division).
27. In cases where the preceding vowel is long (except for 'ee'), this fact is indicated by adding 'e' before a final 'l' (as in 'bibel' (bible); and before the 'n' in the sounds 'shn' and 'zhn', as in 'nashen' (nation) and 'fyuzhen' (fusion).
28. Letters that are not pronounced are not spelt - as in 'thum' (thumb), 'litl' (little).