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The following KEE TQ PROO-NUN-SEE-AA-SHUN, or KEY TO PRO-NUN-CI-A-TION, is used within Parts of this Book for CLARITY and Good Understanding.

1. A single “U” is always the vowel sound of “u” as in “but,” “must,” and “trust.” Therefore, above is spelled “u-b-u-v,” and blood is spelled “b-l-u-d.” “The” has “thu” same vowel sound, and “of” is spelled “u-v,” which is easy to remember. Why spell “uv” O-F, and “awf” O-F-F??
2. A single “Q” is always the vowel sound of “oo” in school, rule, do, through, fruit, crew, shoe, lieu, coup, group, Sioux, maneuver, blue, rhubarb, rheumatism, rendezvous, prosciutto, ghoul, pooh, two, etc., etc.! Therefore, those words are spelled very simply with a Q, like this: skql, rql, dq, thrq, frqt, krq, shq, lq, kq, grqp, Sq, munqver, blq, Rqbrrb, rqmutizm, rondaavq, prooshqtoo, gql, pq, 2, ets., etseteru! When you say, “Q is OO, as in school,” it rhymes, and is very easy to remember. “Q” riimz with “OO,” and iz veiree eezee tq reemember.
3. Double letters — AA, EE, II, OO, UU, and RR — are always LONG sounds, or in other words, those double letters are pronounced the same way that you pronounce those single letters when saying the alphabet — as in ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Please notice the double letters in the following words: Great/graat leap/leep, light/liit goat/Goot you/uu are/rr. Just think, if “e-a” is the sound of “aa” in “great,” why is it the sound of “ee” in “leap”? Moreover, if “g-h” is absolutely necessary in “tight, knight, might, fight, flight, light, right, night, sight, and height,” why not put a “g-h” in “mite, invite, kite, bite, ice, riffle, Israelite, and Edomite,” to read like this: “m-i-g-h-t-e, i-n-v-i-g-h-t-e, k-i-g-h-t-e, b-i-g-h-t-e, g-h-i-c-e, r-i-g-h-f-f-l-e, I-s-r-a-e-l-i-g-h-t-e, and E-d-o-m-i-g-h-t-e,” since “g-h” is so sacred? Therefore, I prefer to spell those words like this: “t-i-i-t  n-i-i-t  m-i-i-t  f-i-i-t  l-i-i-t  r-i-i-t  n-i-i-t  s-i-i-t  and  h-i-i-t,” which eliminates 18 needless letters. Moreover, I also spell those other words with the same consistency, like this: “M-i-i-t  i-n-v-i-i-t  k-i-i-t  b-i-i-t  I-i-s,  r-i-i-f-o-u-l  I-z-r-a-a-e-l-i-i-t  and  E-e-d-u-m-i-i-t.” Furthermore, if “o-a” is the sound of “oo” in “goat, float, boat, moat, and coat” why is it not spelled the same way in “wrote, stove, bone, tone, cone, and telephone,” like this: “w-r-o-a-t, s-t-o-a-v, b-o-a-n, t-o-a-n, c-o-a-n, and t-e-l-e-p-h-o-a-n”? Therefore, I prefer to spell the single sound of “oa” with a double “O,” like this: “G-o-o-t, f-l-o-o-t, b-o-o-t, m-o-o-t, k-o-o-t, r-o-o-t, s-t-o-o-v, b-o-o-n, t-o-o-n, k-o-o-n, and t-e-l-u-f-o-o-n,” which is so simple that any little Child could remember it.

Nevertheless, the Swangkee Phonetic English Key to Pronunciation can be summed up in THREE simple RULES, which are as follows:

1. A single “U” is always the simple vowel sound of “U” in “but, must, and Trust.”
2. “Q” is “OO,” as in Skql / School.
3. Double letters, AA/EE/II/OO/UU and RR are always LONG sounds, as if Pronouncing the Alphabet.

All other Letters and Combinations of Letters are pronounced the same as in regular English. For Example, “OU” in “would, could, and should, is the same in “woud, koud, and shoud.” Likewise, the Sound of “ZH” in “Vision” and “Confusion” is the same in “Teluvizhun” [television] and “mezher” [measure]. In other words, just try to pronounce each Combination of Letters in Swangkee “Funetik Ingglish” According to their Traditional Sounds, and then you can easily read them. However, if you still have difficulty, please refer to my Booklet.