Rather than relying on his personal preferences and dictating how to write the sounds, the author-program manager prefers to conduct surveys to find out what prospective users would prefer. Persons who read this on the web and respond to the survey will be considered as a focus group. When the suurveys are received and tallied, the results will be sent back to the respondents. The results will be organized and prioritized and presented in the web page. They can then see which changes are acceptable in general and use them them personally or suggest other improvements.
The vision includes publication of the proposed Globul 2000 program as a Guide, such as this paper. Initially, the program will be supported by the author; should the program gain acceptance, a support group will be formed to promote it. After initial surveys, a textbook, lesson plans and materials such as flashcards and posters for an integrated G2KP classroom program and a videotape and pronunciation guide for individual study will be developed and made available. The guide will be called The Globul 2000 Spell and Say Booklet, in the form of a small pocket-sized (3" x 4") booklet of about 80 sheets. With it, you could lookup words you hear and find how to spell in the Sound-to-Word List or you could lookup words you read in the Word-to-Sound List and find how to say them, all with plain alphabet symbols. Custom booklets for various dialects and languages may be published.

Initial Program Organization

1. Primary emphasis will be placed on the spelling of Primary English words used by pre-school children and non-English-speaking persons, such as the Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary (http://www.cathed.org/resources/dolchlist.htm). Primary emphasis will be on about a thousand of the most common words and sounds, as determined by the opinions of survey group participants, such as the Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary (http://www.cathed.org/dolchlist.htm).

2. Initially, rules will be developed and presented by the author. Changes to rules will be considered as survey results are tallied. The Initial Rules contained herein will be updated with a notion that those rules that are scored above average, that is, ‘good’ or better, will be adopted for the booklet. Rules with lower scores will be studied further, possibly for custom booklets.

3. The Guide will include the survey group average score for changes and comments. The Guide will be submitted to book publishers to achieve wider participation.

It has been said that English is not a phonetic language; however, close examination will show that, for the most part, English is phonetic. Many symbols and words that are written and spoken with these words are phonetic. As an example, almost all words that have a short vowel sound and the expletive letters b, d, k, p, t, or v are phonetic. Therefore, G2KP as an integrated system would keep most spellings the same. Only those problematical symbols will be developed to help people get over the hurdles. The G2KP rule will use the minimum number of symbols. The rules will be presented with the biggest changes first, with succeeding changes of lesser scope

Written symbols or combinations of symbols for the five major vowels are considered to the most troublesome because of their ambiguities. As a point of departure for G2KP, they will have unique phonemes identified, named and associated with them on a one-to-one basis as follows,

except where a unique symbol is defined: - short or hard vowel sounds will be associated with traditional single written symbols; and

- long or soft or broad vowels sounds will be associated with double written symbols.

In all cases, the sequence of written word symbols will match the sequence of phonemes. As an example, the use of vowel modifiers after the vowel, such as ‘e’ followed by ‘a’ will be eliminated.

Where common usage involves vowel-like sounds for any combinations of written symbols, written symbols will be identified and named.

Consonant sounds associated with written symbols will be identified named and then unique written symbols will be identified and associated with them.

Symbols that are used relatively rarely will be used for those sounds that are used relatively often and do not have unique related symbols.

Redundant, repeated, or doubled symbols in words will be eliminated in favor of single symbols.

Unspoken written symbols will be eliminated. Unwritten symbols for phonemes will be added.

Wherever there is a conflict between the rules for phonemes and the rules for written symbols involving the same meanings of the same spoken and written words, a single rule will be used.

The Globul 2000 English rule will consider the general rules above, and favor the use of appropriate written symbols for phonemes over inappropriate written symbols.

Note: In the remainder of the paper, where the grammatical structure is "traditional will be changed to Globul 2000", the notation ‘=>’ will be used to indicate the words ‘will be changed to’.

As an example, Traditional => Globul 2000.

Gen.1.1. The long sound of ‘a’, as in ‘say’, is heard as two sounds, so will be written ‘Ey’, as in ‘sey’.

The long sound and symbol of ‘a’ will be named, spelled, and pronounced as ‘Ey’.

Gen.1.1.1. The long sound of ‘a’, ‘ah’, and the short sound of ‘o’ will be written as ‘Aa’, as in ‘aahaa’.

Gen.1.2. The short sound of ‘a’ will be unchanged, written as ‘A’, as in ‘hat’.

Gen.1.2. The written ‘y’ is rarely used for a ‘waay’ sound and is commonly-used for an ‘ee’ sound, as in ‘lazy’, or unvoiced as in ‘yes’, ‘yellow’, etc. To reduce confusion, the rule will be to keep the ‘ee’ sound of ‘y’, written and named as ‘y’, as in , lazy => lazy,

Gen.1.2.1 The written 'ee' will be unchanged, named and spoken as 'Ee, as in 'beet', feet', and 'meet'.

Gen.1.2.2. The short sound of ‘e’ will be unchanged, named, spoken and written as ‘E’, as in ‘bet’.

Gen.1.3. An exception to the doubled symbol for the long sound is seen for the ‘i’. The long sound of ‘i’ is heard as a combination of the ‘aa’ and the ‘y’, so it will be written as that ‘aay’, as in ‘baayt’.

The long sound and symbol for ‘aay’ will be named and spoken as ‘Aay’.

Gen.1.3.2. The short sound of ‘i’ will be unchanged, written as ‘i’, as in ‘bit’.

Gen.1.4.1. The long sound of ‘o’, with a helping vowel such as an ‘a’, as in ‘float’, or an ‘e’, as in ‘toe’, will be written as ‘O’, without the helpers, as in ‘flot’, or ‘to’.

Gen.1.4.2. Reference Gen.1.1. The short sound of ‘O’, as in ‘hot’, will be written as the long sound of ‘a’, that is, as ‘Aa’, as in ‘hot’ =>‘haat’. cot => ‘caat’, bottle=>baatul’, got => gaat’, pot => paat’.

Gen.1.5.1. The long sound of ‘u’ will be written and named as ‘UU’, as in ‘buut’;

Gen.1.5.2. The short sound of ‘u’ will be unchanged, written and named as ‘U’, as in ‘but’.

Gen.1.6.1. The alternative sound of ‘u’, as in ‘could’, will be written and named as ‘Ou’, as in ‘coud’.

Gen.1.6.2. The alternative sound of ‘u’, as in ‘sure’, will be written and named as ‘Uo’, as in ‘suor’, or
'eu', as in eurly => early, or sheur=>sure. This depends on survey tallies.

Gen.2.1. Combinations of ‘augh’ or ‘ough’ as in ‘caught’ or ‘bought’ will be named and written with the ‘Au’, as in ‘caut’ or ‘baut’.

Gen.2.2 Combinations of ‘ou’ as ‘house’ will be written and named ‘Aau’, as in ‘haaus’.

Gen.2.3. Combinations of ‘ai’ as in ‘bait’ will use the long ‘Ay’ and so be written as in ‘beyt’.

Gen.2.4. Combinations of ‘ough’, as in ‘rough’, will be named ‘U’, written with the ‘u’, as in ‘ruf’.

Gen.2.5. Combinations of ‘igh, as in ‘light’, will be written with the ‘Aay’, as in ’laayt’.

Gen.2.6. Combinations of ‘eigh’ will be written with the ‘Ey’, as in ‘weyt’ or ‘neybor’.

Gen.2.7. Combinations of ‘ough’, as in ‘ought’, will be named and written with the ‘Au’, as in ‘aut’.

Gen.2.8. Combinations of ‘ough’, as in ‘bough’, will be written with the ‘Aau’, as in ‘baau’.

Gen.2.9. Combinations of ‘ough’, as in ‘cough’, will be written with the ‘Au’ as in ‘kauf’.

Gen.3.1. Combinations of ‘ph’ that are spoken as ‘f’ will be written as an ‘f’, as in ‘filaasoofy’.

Gen.3.2. The written symbol ‘s’ will be uniquely associated with spoken ‘s’ as in ‘sound’ [saaund].

Gen.3.3. The written symbol ‘z’ will be uniquely associated with the spoken ‘z’ as in ‘layzy’.

When sounded as ‘z’, ‘s’ will be written as ‘z’.

Gen.3.4. Combinations of ‘c’ or ‘ck’ that are spoken as ‘k’ will be written as ‘k’, as in ‘klaak’.

Gen.3.5. Where the symbol ‘c’ is spoken as ‘s’ (before e, i, or y), it will be written as ‘s’, as in ‘sity’.

Gen-3.6. The spoken ‘SH’ will be named ‘Esh’ will be associated with the written symbol ‘SH’; as in ‘fish’. In Globul 2000 B, the ‘C’ may have been eliminated via survey results from the redundant ‘CK’ in 3.4 above and replaced by the ‘S’ in 3.5. Since it has no other use, it may be used to replace the ‘SH’ to reduce the number of symbols to be used. The ‘c’ will then be used as ‘Ec’, as in ‘fisc’.

Gen-3.7. The symbol ‘J’ is sometimes used as a soft sound ‘ZH’ by itself and the soft ‘G’ is often used in lieu of the phoneme of ‘DJ’. Therefore, words that are spelled with the soft ‘G’ or ‘J’ will be written as they are spoken, with ‘DJ’ in lieu of the ‘G’ or ‘J’, as in ‘edge’ being written as ‘edj’; also badge => badj. The ‘j’ will be named ‘Ej’ and pronounced as ‘ezh’. Where there is a hard ‘J’ with the ‘D’ initial sound, as in ‘judge’, the ‘D’ will be prefixed, as in ‘djudj’.

Gen.3.8.1. Where the written symbol ‘g’ is spoken as a soft ‘g’ or ‘dzh’, as in ‘page’, it will be written as a combination of ‘dzh’ or ‘dj’, as in ‘padzh’ or ‘paydj’.

Gen.3.8.2. Where the written symbol ‘g’ is spoken as a hard g, it will be named ‘Gy’, as in ‘guy’.

Gen.3.9.1 The commonly-spoken ‘th’ sound, as in ‘thin’, will be named ‘Eth’ and retain its use as is.

Gen.3.9.2 The commonly-spoken ‘th’ sound, as in ‘that’, will be named ‘Eth’ and retain its use.

Note: To distinguish between the two ‘th’s, the ‘that’ ‘th’ may be named ‘Edh’ and written as ‘dh’.

Gen-4.1. Words that were spelled with the rarely-written symbol ‘Q’ will be written with ‘KW’.

‘Q’ will be used to identify the common sound of ‘TH’, as in ‘thin’ written as ‘qin’.;

The ‘q’ symbol will be named ‘Eq’and pronounced ‘Eth’.

Gen-4.2. Words that were spelled with the rarely-written symbol ‘X’ will be spelled with ‘KS’

‘X’ will be used to identify the common sound of ‘TH’, as in ‘that’, which will be written as ‘xat’.

The ‘x’ symbol will be named ‘Ex’ and pronounced as ‘Eth’.

Gen.5.1. Redundant doubled written symbols will be eliminated, such as ‘battery’ => ‘batery’,

‘apple’ => ‘apul’, or ‘spell’ => ‘spel’. Where the doublet was used to indicate that a preceding vowel was to be spoken as a hard vowel, the double will be eliminated and the vowel will be written and spoken as above in Gen.1. and/or Gen.2.. In most cases, the elimination will not affect the pronunciation. However, where pronunciation is affected by the doubled symbols, then the single use will use the appropriate written symbol. As an example, ‘off’ indicating the ‘ff’ sound, compared to ‘of’ indicating a ‘v’ sound, will be spelled ‘off’=> ‘auf’ and ‘of’ =>‘uv’.

Gen.6.1. Unspoken ‘w’s at the beginning of words such as ‘write’ will be eliminated, as in ‘raayt’.

Gen.6.2. Unspoken ‘e’s at the endings of words will be eliminated, such as ‘give’ => ‘giv’.

Traditional Olde English spellings such as app’le’ => ap’ul’. Where the silent ‘e’ was used to indicate that a preceding vowel was to be spoken as a long or soft vowel, the ‘e’ will be eliminated and the vowel will be written and spoken as above in Gen.1. or Gen.2..

Gen.6.3. Combinations of ‘ps’ where the ‘p’ is not spoken will be written as ‘s’, as in ‘saaykaalodjy’

Gen.6.4. Unspoken ‘g’s at the beginnings of words such as ‘gnat’ will be dropped.

Gen.6.5. Unspoken ‘k’s at the beginnings of words such as ‘know’ will be dropped.

( Historically, know was a combination of Scotttish ‘ken’ and the ending, originally spoken ‘kenow.)

Gen-7.1. Symbols will be written as they are spoken. Examples of Globul 2000 spellings are:

‘f’ spoken as ‘v’, as in of => uv;

‘o’ spoken as ‘I’, as in ‘women’ => ‘wimen’

‘o’ spoken as ‘u’, as in ‘love’ => ‘luv’;

‘a’ spoken as ‘u’, as in ‘was’ => ‘wuz’;

‘x’ spoken as ‘z’, as in xylophone => zaayloofoon;

‘ti’ spoken as ‘sh’, as in nation => nayshun => naycun; and

any plural ‘s’ spoken as ‘z’ => ‘z’, such as ‘keys’ => ‘kyz’.

Spec.1. two or too or to => tuu

Spec.2. sugar => shouguor => couguor

Spec.3 shoe => shuu => cuu

Cum Oculo Posteritus - With an eye to the future, while standard keyboards may be used for the Gloobul 2000 Language, perhaps they may evolve into something like:

The Gloobul 2000 A alphabet will then contain all 26 of the traditional symbols plus 14 symbols for phonemes that are missing from the traditional alphabet and be:

These forty rules, with an alphabet of forty symbols, including those that are traditional English rules, constitute the initial set of rules and symbols for Gloobul 2000 English. The goal is to have a hundred survey responses from representative groups.

Subsequent changes derived from survey results will be designated in sequence, that is, B, C, D, etc.. It is anticipated that the new symbols of c, j, q, and x may be problematical. Therefore, the Gloobul 2000 alphabet will be designated in two ways. Globul 2000 A will have the Gloobul 2000 rules without the new symbols. Gloobul 2000 B may then be the same, except that, with the new pronunciation of the c, j, q, and x symbols, the symbols for the ‘th’, the ‘dh’, the sh, and the zh will be dropped.

On a more personal note -

- I suppose that there are many people who have daydreamed about such a system for the better part of their lives as I have. I suppose that they have searched the dictionary, only to then have to look up special phonetic spellings and wished for a simpler way.

- I hope that anyone's thinking will be enhanced by creating more explicit links between their brain's and mind's aural and visual and speech systems.

- I hope that pre-school children and functionally illiterate will be able to learn it quickly and use it as an introduction to Americanized English and, furthermore, to any other language.

- I hope that any non-English-speaking person who has learned the Gloobul 2000 rules will be able to hear words and look them up in a guide to pronunciation.

The development program notion of a participant group is expected to gain popularity; the use of Gloobul 2000 English is envisioned to grow as a ‘grass-roots-up’ dynamic process. A personal computer program for tallying survey results has been developed to run with Microsoft Access 7 software.

This paper has been put on the worldwide web so that it may be read from libraries, schools, and other institutions. Readers may download the paper from *Gloobul and a survey, fill in the survey, and then E-mail or USPS mail their choices to the author for tallying and reporting.

The vision will be extended to include writing and publishing a survey report, then, perhaps, a textbook and guide to pronunciation for children and others. The book will essentially use the

English => Gloobul 2000 process in reverse, that is, Gloobul 2000 =>English.

There are several phonetic groups on the web; one of them is "saundspel". In that group, they use a brief story as an example for the various writers to use to show how their own methods would look like. For the Gloobul 2000, the story looks like this: "Wuns upaan a taaym, thu beeyuutiful dautur uv a greyt madjishun waanted maur pourlz tuu pout intuu a straungbaaks umung her trezhurz. "Louk thru thu glooing raaund sentur uv thu muun wen it iz ajur blu", sed heur rauyul muthur, Kween Haryet, in anseur tuu heur kweschon. "Theyr yu maayt faaynd your hart's deezaayr". Thu feyr prinses chuckuld and lafd haard, beecauz shee doutud theez weurdz. Insted, shwe yuuzd heur imadjinashun, muuvd intuu thu fotaagrufy biznes, and touk irisistubul pikchurs uv thu muun - pikchurs in culur. "I sertenly perseev that it iz aulmoost hooly pyeur waayt, naat blu at aul", shee thaut. Shee aulsoo faaund that shee koud meyk enuf muny in eyt munths tuu baay herself forty-tuu reely luvly, hyuudj, nyuu djuulz.

Enjoy Your Gloobul 2000 Best, Rich Strong