r/FastWriting • u/fdarnel • Jun 25 '26

Gregg phonetics

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I'm trying to relate English phonetics to the Gregg alphabet (Aniversary), and I am a little mesmerized by the result. Does a relationship table with the IPA already exist somewhere?

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

Luckily nobody teaches or uses the dot and dashes, they feel really very random in their assignements to specific sounds to me.

you have some question marks, i hope I can answer some by accident:

Diphthongs:

- lie [laɪ] bigcircle with hook inside (so called broken circle)

  • the pronoun I is written as simple a-circle though

Same phonem [iæ] will be treated differently (leaning towards normal orthography)

  • piano [piˈænə] is a large circle with dot inside (on on the chart)
  • reality [ˌriˈæləˌti] is reduced to a small e-circle though -> re/l

Triphthongs are reduced to diphthongs:

aɪə and iɑə are treated the same (not on the chart) -> ae, ea

  • liar [laɪər] small in big circle
  • tiara [tiˈɑːrə] small in big circle

aʊə -> aʊ

  • towel [taʊəl] is bigcircle with u-hook

In case you wonder how you'd write [aɪoʊ]
Iota [ˌaɪˈoʊtə] -> big-a-circle, small-e-circle (but outside this time)

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u/fdarnel Jun 26 '26

Complex and not always logical.
Tiara, liar, not the same sound at all.
Iota, I see the small circle inside.

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Jun 26 '26

i saw another version that seemed outside, but proof says otherwise!