Show HN: Ingglish – What if English spelling made sense?

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4 months ago

My 5-year-old is learning to read and I keep having to say "yeah sorry, that letter is silent" and "no, those letters make a different sound in this word."

So I built Ingglish — English where every letter always makes the same sound. "ough" alone makes 6 different sounds (though, through, rough, cough, thought, bough). In Ingglish, every letter has one sound, no silent letters, no exceptions.

  - Paste text to see it translated instantly
  - Translate any webpage while preserving its layout
  - Chrome extension to browse the web in Ingglish
  - Fully reversible — Ingglish text can be converted back to standard English (minus homophones)

The core translator, DOM integration, and website are all open source: https://github.com/ptarjan/ingglish

I'd love your feedback! Thanks.

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