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    A PDF version of the Appendix to my first novella, "Anatopismo". Title available from Amazon and other sources. Available in epub and book form. Check out my more recent work, "Hell-Ay: Angel Town" too.

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    Anatopismo Appendix
    Underscript.
    Some readers may be interested in more information
    about the writing system used in the Underrealm. Underfolk
    generally use a more phonetic system of spelling than that
    used in traditional English. They also have some unique
    characters or use some traditional characters differently.
    Ћ and ћ are generally used instead of the word “the”. In
    Underscript, the latter would actually be spelt “xe” or “ƌe”,
    depending on pronunciation. Similarly, the ampersand (&) is
    widely used in place of “and”.
    The letter “c” is usually replaced by “k” or “s” as
    appropriate. In Underscript, “c” is used to represent the
    traditional digraph “ch” when it represents the phoneme used
    in words such as chimney, chance, change or chair. Some
    Underscript words such as china use “jh” rather than “c”.
    Some traditional uses of “ch” may be represented as “tʆ” in
    Underscript. It is possible to have more than one of these
    forms in the same word. For example, church in Underscript
    is “jhurtʆ”.
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    The “sh” digraph in traditional English is represented by a single character in Underscript,


    which I have chosen to represent by “ʆ”. Where compounding words creates an “s” and “h”
    together this character is not used unless the word acquires the “sh” phoneme.
    X and x are used instead of “th” were this behaves as a voiceless consonant in words such as
    thing, thigh, stealthy, depth and three. Use of the digraph “fh” instead may be encountered.
    Ɖ and ƌ are used for “th” were it is a voiced consonant in words such as this, that, they, other
    and width. The digraph “dh” is occasionally used.
    The “wh-question” words in Underscript are spelt with an initial “hw-”, even going as far as
    adding an extra letter to “how” so it is “hɤou”.
    Traditional English words that use “x” are spelt with “ks” or “eks” in Underscript. The letter
    “Q” is not used for spelling and “kw” is used instead. “G” is reserved for the hard “g” sound, “ȷ”
    usually being used instead.
    “Y” is only used when it has unique sound, which is generally only at the start of a word such
    as yacht or yogurt. Traditional English words that end in “y” usually end in “ı” in Underscript.
    Lowercase “w” may be written either as “w” or “ɤ”, with the latter being more common,
    particularly if handwritten. Lower case “ı” and “ȷ” are undotted in Underscript. Underscript uses
    a character resembling “eng” (Ŋ, ŋ) for the “ng” sound. The standard unicode character set lacks
    a character exactly like the Underscript “m” so I have used the Hebrew letter “resh” (‫ )ר‬where
    needed instead.

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    Underscript has a number of vowel phonemes which are represented by their own characters,
    digraphs or trigraphs. These are a, e, i, o, u, ah, eh, ih, oh, uh, ar, ayr, er, ir, iyr, or, ur, ay, ey,
    iy, oy, yu, aa, ii, uu and ou.
    ayr sounds like “air”.
    ir sounds like “ear”.
    iy sounds like “aye” and iyr rhymes with “fire”.
    oh as in “show”
    ou as in “cow”
    oy as in “boy”
    Doubled vowels make a long sound so “ii” sounds like a long “e” or double e as in “peer”
    and “uu” is a long o as in “ooze”.
    Measurements.
    One vingt is 7.4 cm or 2.9".
    One ort is 14.8mm or 0.58".
    One standard cubit (kubit) is 44.4 cm or 17.4".
    One standard pace (peys) is 1.48 m or 58".
    One skulp is 405 ml or 14.25 fl oz.
    One skud is 405 gm or 0.89lb.

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