''I don't reckon I'm any kind of pro but I'll give it a bash. You ask "Can you answer that question posed on 'two particular vowel sounds of O'?" Do you mean a question tha went along these lines. "If you're adding 'oer' for [Or] then how will you spell 'goer' and 'lower'?"''
''Words like "goer" and "lower" are problems I'm still working on. I had had a half decent solution but this was before I considered the /O/ verses /Ou/ distinction and the /o:(r)/ verses /Our/ distinction. Maybe I'll go with "goaer" and "blo-er" but it's not ideal.''
Perhaps there wouldn't be so much of a mess if we just added some more letters to the alphabet. That's one of the problems, ''English'' has more phonemes than letters. Perhaps we should just add some more letters to the alphabet. Any, What do you think about this alphabet with a few letters added to it.
a-father
b-book
c-chart, chip = become ''cart'' and ''cip''
d-dog
e-red
f-food
g-good
h-hook
i-is
j-jet
k-cat
l-lip
m-man
n-no
o-top
p-pool
q-[?]-''glottal stop''- ''Hawai'i'' becomes ''Hywieqi'', as the words pronounced in the Hawai'ian language.
r-real
s-street
t-tiger
u-tub
v-vet
w-wet
x-genre, rouge, beige, vision
y-yes
z-zebra
þ-think
ð-then
æ-cat
ø-arrest, about, soda, permit ''the verb''.
œ-home, goat, goer, float, boat
Ð-tied, kneed, allowed, tried, stayed
ï-lenin, cabin, possible, bizarre, visit, wanted, needed, carpet, manage, private, amplifier, horrible. ''Unstressed [i] or [..]'' See below,
ş-ship, shield, fish, wish, chef, machine.
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The ''Ð'' in ''tied'', ''kneed'' etc. I'm using is the capital of the letter that looks like a lowercase ''t'' and a lowercase ''d'' put together which is different from ''eth''.
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The letter ''ï'' is used in some words where some people use [..] and some people use the [i] sound in ''kit''. The ''i's'' that are pronounce [..] by most of us are pronounced like the ''i'' sound in ''kit'' by some. So, that ''lennon'' and ''lenin'' and ''bazaar'' and ''bizarre'' are distinguished. Also, for Americans and Britons [i] occurs in past tense ''ed'' endings and plural ''es'' endings and for some people in ''et'', ''age'' and ''ate'' endings. So, in unstressed syllables where either [..] or [i] can be used, the letter ''ï''. ''America'' becomes ''Ømerïkø''. [i] is never used in ''en'' endings so, they become ''øn''.
See -
http://www.hi.is/~peturk/KENNSLA/87/VARS/WVMerger.html
Sound sample.
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So, in this alphabet 8 letters are added. ''goer'' becomes ''gϿr''. how is that?
Well, what do you think about this extended alphabet? Well, what do you þink øbout ðis ekstendïd alføbet. Are you ready to get a bigger keyboard? You would probably need a bigger keyboard because we would have to add some keys.