The word 'pool' is driving me potty!

[18yearstooold]

Trying to identify alternatives to /ue/ in a list of words

I have a stupid accent and when I say pool it is neither an /u/ or an /oo/

Gah!!!!!

I doubt anyone but you and I will adopt the spelling as a new representation catkind so don't get too excited ??

Maizie
I never said that IPA is still limited just to English, merely that it is still used for decoding English more than for any other purpose.

Pitman did originally devise it just for transcribing English in a regular, completely decodable way. The Roman alphabet was originally developed just for Latin, but lots of other languages have based their spelling systems on it since. Pitman's IPA has been similarly modified and expanded to cope with other languages. For French first, because French students of English are particularly in need of a pronunciation guide, because many English words still have French spellings but a different pronunciation (double, trouble, table, garage, courage....). Such words are difficult for them to pronounce the English way.

I would be interested to know in what way u find my interpretation of written English weird. I have merely identified and described its regularities and irregularities.

Suggest you read what you posted masha

Oh I wasn't proposing to use it mrz - I prefer to go with the phonics international take that /y+oo/ is two phonemes sometimes within one grapheme (and presumably not a diphthong as they annotate them as single phonemes). But I do like things to be logically consistent!

Also perfectly happy to accept as a convention that we treat diphthongs as a single phoneme and choose not to segment them. What I don't want to do though is pretend they don't contain two sounds. It's not that clear cut. Hence my interest that DD naturally hears two sounds and splits them when segmenting a word, which is where I came in here.

That's wonderful catkind life can continue ??

Pitman developed the ITA not the IPA

I would be interested to know in what way u find my interpretation of written English weird. I have merely identified and described its regularities and irregularities.

The fact that you have completely misinterpreted my original statement confirms why I made it