「短音」の a, e, i, o, u の つづり の 不規則 な 単語 一覧
「短音」は、母音字 ひとつで 表記されるのが 原則 です。
複数の 母音字で 「短音」が 表記されている 場合は 例外 です。
フォニックスを ふまえて つづりを みただけで そのまま 読みかた が わかるように 書きなおしてみます。
「短音」の a, e, i, o, u は、それぞれ a, e, i, o, u の つづり で 書かれること が 理想 です。
(bat, bet, bit, bot, but)
ただし、
「短音」の o が a の 文字で 書かれる 場合 --- watch, quality, swan
「短音」の u が o の 文字で 書かれる 場合 --- front, son, ton, won
そのような 単語に 関しては、保留あつかい と します。
Aの短音（Short A）
bade --- (badd), bade/beId/
draught --- draft
guarantee --- garantee
guaranty --- garanty
laugh --- laff
laughter --- lafter
plaid --- plad
plait --- (plat), plait/pleIt/
Eの短音（Short E）
Short E の音は e の文字で 表記すべき です。ただし、again, against, any, many, says などは そのままに して おきます。（固有名詞としての Reading や Thames も そのまま です。）
必要に 応じて e の 直後の 子音字を 二重化します。ただし、有声音で 読む s や v などを あたらしく 二重に することは ありません。
bury --- bery (berry と 区別)
friend --- frend
heifer --- heffer
jeopardy --- jeppardy, jepardy
leopard --- leppard, lepard
ea → e(多数)
abreast --- abrest
ahead --- ahed, (ahedd?)
airhead --- airhed
already --- alreddy
bedstead --- bedsted
bread --- bred, (bredd?)
breadth --- bredth
breakfast --- brekfast
breast --- brest
breath --- breth
cleanliness --- clenliness
cleanse --- clenze, clense
dead --- ded
deadline --- dedline
deadly --- dedly
deaf --- def, deff?
deafen --- deffen
(dealt) --- delt
death --- deth
dread --- dred
dreadful --- dredful
dreadnaught --- drednaut
endeavor --- endevor
farmstead --- farmsted
feather --- fether
head --- hed
header --- hedder
heading --- hedding
headline --- hedline
headstart --- hedstart
health --- helth
heather --- hether
heaven --- heven
heavy --- hevy
homestead --- homested
instead --- insted
jealous --- jellous
jealousy --- jellousy
lead --- ledd (lead の過去形・過去分詞形 led との 区別の ため)
leady --- leddy
(leapt) --- lept
leather --- lether
leaven --- leven
meadow --- meddo, meddoe
(meant) --- ment?
measure --- mesure
peasant --- pesant
pheasant --- phesant
pleasant --- plesant
pleasure --- plesure
(read) --- redd (red「赤い」との 区別 が 可能)
ready --- reddy
realm --- relm
retread --- retred
spread --- spred
stead --- sted
steady --- steddy
steadfast --- stedfast
stealth --- stelth
sweat --- swet
sweater --- swetter
thread --- thred
threat --- thret
threaten --- thretten
treachery --- trechery
tread --- tred
treadle --- treddle
treadmill --- tredmill
treasure --- tresure
unhealthy --- unhelthy
unleaded --- unledded
unsteady --- unsteddy
wealth --- welth
weapon --- weppon
(weather) --- wether (同音異義語: wether, whether)
zealot --- zellot
zealotry --- zellotry
zealous --- zellous
Iの短音（Short I）
business --- bisness (ただし、"bizness" の ほう が おおい?)
busy --- bisy
pretty --- pritty
sieve --- siv
(women)---(wimmen, wimmin)
build, guild, guilt などの 読まない文字 u については 保留。
y を i に かえる えいたんご の れい
abysmal --- abismal
abyss --- abiss
acronym --- acronim
analysis --- analisis
analyst --- analist
analytic --- analitic
antonym --- antonim
apocalypse --- apocalipse
asymmetry --- asimmetry
Byzantine --- no change
catalyst --- catalist
crypt --- cript
crystal --- cristal
cygnet --- cignet
cylinder --- cilinder
cymbal --- cimbal
Cymric --- no change
Cymry --- no change
cynic --- cinic
cynical --- cinical
Cynthia --- no change
cyst --- cist
dysfunctional --- disfunctional
dyslexia --- dislexia
dyslexic --- dislexic
Egypt -- no change
glyph --- gliph
gym --- gim
gymnast --- gimnast
gypsum --- gipsum
gypsy --- gipsy
homonym --- homonim
hysteria --- histeria
hysterical --- histerical
hymn --- himn
hymnal --- himnal
hypnotism --- hipnotism
hypnotize --- hipnotize
hypocrite -- hipocrit
Kymric --- no change
Kymry --- no change
lymph --- limph, limf
lynch --- linch
lynx --- linx
lyric --- liric
lytic --- litic
myriad --- miriad
mysterious --- misterious
mystery --- mistery
mystic --- mistic
myth --- mith
myxoma --- mixoma
nyctophobia --- nictophobia
nymph --- nimph, nimf
odyssey --- odissee (Fr.?)
physical --- phisical
pseudonym --- pseudonim
pygmy --- pigmy
pyramid --- piramid
rhythm --- rithm
symbol --- simbol
symmetry --- simmetry
sympathy --- simpathy
symptom --- simptom
synapse --- sinapse
synchro --- sincro
synchronize --- sincronize
syncopation --- sincopation
syndrome --- sindrome
synergy --- sinergy
synonym --- sinonym
synopsis --- sinopsis
synthesis --- sinthesis
system --- sistem
systematic --- sistematic
typical --- tipical
xyster --- xister, zister
xystus --- xistus, zistus
Oの短音（Short O）
bureaucracy --- burocracy （ただし、bureau の -eau は そのまま）
bureaucrat --- burocrat （この eau は short-O ではなく あいまい音だが、burocracy にならって 単純化）
knowledge --- knolledge
yacht --- yot
cough --- coff
trough --- troff
Uの短音（Short U）
enough --- enuff
rough --- ruff
tough --- tuff
blood --- blud
bloody --- bluddy
flood --- flud
flooding --- fludding
couple --- cupple
double --- dubble
trouble --- trubble
touch --- tutch (cf. clutch, Dutch, hutch)
young --- yung
courage --- currage
discourage --- discurrage
encourage --- encurrage
flourish --- flurrish
nourish --- nurrish
### country と southern は、固有名詞に 準ずる あつかいを して、つづりを そのまま に します。
