Panphone of "The Bear" with Truespel Phonetics Analysis
US English Panphone by Tom Zurinskas 7-27-24
A panphone is the shortest story having all the sounds of a "phonabet" (total sounds of a language). To make this story below, I use the converter at truespel.com to convert text to phonemes and then I use my auto-count Excel file to get the data below.
Here is The "Bear" story:
"On a path in the woods a big bear wants to pounts on a skrawny Asian monkey which avoided it by climbing high up an orange tree. Yet showing your ape escape never fails ."
Below in ~truespel US accent which allows phonetic analysis
~~Aan u pathh in thu woodz u big bair waants tue pounts aan u skraunee Aezhin munkee wich uvvoided it bie kliemeeng hie up an orinj tree. Yet shoeweeng yor aep eskkaep never faelz.~~
Summary Phoneme Counts (ranked)
23 Consonants | 17 Vowels | ||||||
single | doubled for stress | ||||||
phoneme | count | phoneme | count | phoneme | count | ||
~n | 13 | ~nn | 0 | ~u | 7 | ||
~t | 6 | ~tt | 0 | ~i | 6 | ||
~p | 5 | ~pp | 0 | ~ee | 5 | ||
~r | 5 | ~rr | 0 | ~e | 4 | ||
~s | 4 | ~ss | 0 | ~aa | 3 | ||
~w | 4 | ~ww | 0 | ~ae | 3 | ||
~b | 3 | ~bb | 0 | ~ie | 3 | ||
~d | 3 | ~dd | 0 | ~a | 3 | ||
~g | 3 | ~gg | 0 | ~or | 2 | ||
~k | 3 | ~kk | 1 | ~au | 1 | ||
~l | 2 | ~ll | 0 | ~air | 1 | ||
~m | 2 | ~mm | 0 | ~er | 1 | ||
~y | 2 | ~yy | 0 | ~oo | 1 | ||
~z | 2 | ~zz | 0 | ~oe | 1 | ||
~ch | 1 | ~cch | 0 | ~oi | 1 | ||
~f | 1 | ~ff | 0 | ~ou | 1 | ||
~h | 1 | ~hh | 0 | ~ue | 1 | ||
~j | 1 | ~jj | 0 | vowels | 44 | ||
~sh | 1 | ~ssh | 0 | consonants | 68 | ||
~th | 1 | ~tth | 0 | total | 112 | ||
~thh | 1 | ~tthh | 0 | total words | 34 | ||
~v | 1 | ~vv | 1 | Ratios | |||
~zh | 1 | ~zzh | 0 | Phons/word | 3.29 | ||
total | 66 | 2 | Sylls/word | 1.29 | |||
all | 68 | total consonants | Phons/syll | 2.55 | |||
Analysis | Count | |
Total words = | 34 | |
Total characters (plus spaces) = | 185 | |
Total phonemes Letters only= | 145 | |
Total Phonemes = | 112 | with all ~r's |
Total syllables (vowels) = | 44 | 39% |
Total consonants = | 68 | 61% |