Truespel Quickly -   A One-Page Complete Tutorial on Truespel Phonetics       

             by Tom Zurinskas       (Here me speak this tutorial at

This is a quick tutorial of the 40 sounds and two rules of truespel assuming you are familiar with US English spelling. A dictionary is now printed with a truespel guide.  A free spelling converter is at http://truespel.com .   

(tilde (~) indicates truespel phoneetics)

 23 consonants   (Only 3 underlined need a little explaining. )

 1          2          3        4            5               6        7        8        9       10      11        12  

~b      ~ch      ~d       ~f      ~g (hard)     ~h      ~j       ~k      ~l      ~m      ~n       ~p

13        14        15        16       17         18          19         20        21        22        23       24 ?

 ~r       ~s        ~sh        ~t      ~th       ~thh       ~v        ~w        ~y        ~z       ~zh      (~ ' )

There are 3 consonant differences

1. ~g stands for “hard g”, thus “soft g” is ~j as in “gem” = ~jem
2. ~thh is “unvoiced th“ as in “thick thin” (~thhik ~thhin) thus ~th stands for “voice th“as in” “the that” (~thu ~that) which is more numerous than ~thh
3. ~zh is a new spelling for the sound in “measure, genre” ~mezher, ~zhaanru
4. ? ~(‘ “) Works like a unspoken consonant (glottal stop) – often in speech

17 Vowels

5 Long Vowels  (~ae, ~ee, ~ie, ~oe,~ue)         5 Short Vowels  (~a, ~e, ~i, ~oo, ~u)

1. ~ae as in “gate” = ~gaet                          1   ~a   as in “batman”  =  ~batman
2. ~ee as in “Pete”  = ~Peet                       2   ~e   as in  “get men”  = ~get ~men
3. ~ie as in  “pipe  =  ~piep                         3   ~I   as in  “this big”   =  ~this ~big
4. ~oe as in “rope”  = ~roep                       4   ~oo as “good wool” = ~good ~wool
5. ~ue  as in “flute” = ~fluet                       5  ~u    as in “fun hug”   =  ~fun ~hug

 3  r- vowels                                      2 diphthoungs                                 2  “a” alternates

1. ~air as in “fair” ~fair 1  ~oi as in “oil joy” ~oil joi          1 ~aa    “ha”= ~haa
2. ~er as in “her” ~her 2  ~ou as in “out” = ~out              2 ~au  “paw”= pau
3. ~or as in “for” ~for

Two Rules

1. Stress is on first syllable or after a double consonant. (like desert,dessert)   For two-letter consonants the first letter is doubled to start a stressed syllable – cch, ssh, tth, tthh, zzh
2. An apostrophe ( ' )shows a glottal stop or separates two vowels. A quote ( " ) shows the second vowel is stressed.  For example, “chaos” = ~kae’aas (or ~kaeyyaas) “create” = ~kree”aet, or )~kreeyyaet)

Another 15 minute Tutorial on Truespel  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKpFHUdBBU4&t=26s 

                                              Note: -  Click lower right box to expand and pause anytime to study

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