How the Fo√ne…tic √Ēng…lish Font Works
- Letters with no superscripts make their usual sounds a , b , c
- Pronounce the superscript not the letter ş, ć, č, ü, æ
- Capital vowels say their name â, ê, í, õ, ů, Ẃ, ý, Υ
- Greyed out letters are silent: “know” pronounced nõ; “debt” pronounced det
- Stressed syllables start with • and unstressed syllables start with ◦, e.g. √con…tract (agreement) and con√tract (get smaller)
- A consonant with the superscript u makes the sound “consonant u”, e.g. the syllable …Εle in √câ…Εle makes the sound "bul".
Learn sightwords quickly using Progressive Sounding Out
- Fo√ne…tic √Ēng…lish enables the sounding out of long syllables with progressive sounding-out:
- Progressive sounding-out: there are just two pieces in working memory so even long syllables can be sounded out:
- 1. the blended sound so far, and
- 2. the next sound to add.
- Worked example — the syllable “strengths”:
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1. s + t → st
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2. st + r → str
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3. str + e → stre
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4. stre + ng → streng
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5. streng + th → strength
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6. strength + s → strengths
