> Some of the problem with English spelling are illustrated by the > Chaos Poem: > http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j17/caos.php#caos
I loved: "Though, through, bough, cough, hough, sough, tough??" Just the rules for "ough" are almost as many as there are words with "ough"! However, what if he does this: 1- go to an online dictionary, get the pronunciation 2- that should be easier to transcribe (hope that's the right word here Uri) After all text-to-speech tools use such a trick I guess. Which is why they do really bad on names and slang. This is BTW a rather strange question, even for a Perl mailing list. For someone/thing to need the tool described, they need to meet the following criteria: 1) Speak English, but can't read/write it 2) They DO read/write Hebrew 3) They have no access to the pronunciation guide of any dictionary 4) They have a problem hearing the sound clips from online dictionaries -- Ran Eilam [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
