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As a kid I was frustrated that there is no spelling for letters. As in, h is “spelled” just as “h” but it’s not pronounced how its “spelled;” if you were to actually spell the letter h it would be something like “ayech”
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Anonymous 11w

there is

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Anonymous 11w

i’m england they say hache

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Anonymous 11w

there is that’s how you tell if you use a or an

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Anonymous 11w

That because Latin characters are horrible for the English language. Shavian is a much better alphabet for English. It’s just it would take a lot of effort to implement something like that. But foreal look into it, it makes English possible to sight read like Spanish or Italian.

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