To further add to the confusion:
romic
Rom"ic, n. A method of notation for all spoken sounds, proposed by Mr. Sweet; -- so called because it is based on the common Roman-letter alphabet. It is like the pal[ae]otype of Mr. Ellis in the general plan, but simpler.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. <aside:> hm-us, forgive me ;-)) </aside>
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GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Henry Sweet (1800-1910) was the greatest authority on historical phonetics of his day. His books on Anglo Saxon pronunciation are still in print. His work on a new orthography for English influenced the defvelopment of the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) but is now largely forgotten. One of these important works is digitized below.
Sweet's publication comes after the pioneering work of Isaac Pitman and Henry Ellis. Sweet critiques Ellis' Glossic notation which evolved into New Spelling and is the basis of countless new orthographies for English that are based on the most frequent English spelling patterns. This agreement with Nomic (the traditional orthography (TO)) is obtained at a great sacrifice of phonetic consistency. Sweet favored International spelling patterns. He called his augmented Roman notation with Latin sound correspondents Romic.
Sweet favors using the Roman alphabet and the original Latin sound values. For the sounds in English speech that are not represented, Sweet recommends augmenting the Roman characters with 2 Anglo Saxon symbols (ash and eth), 1 greek character (theta), and 2 turned letters ( ). Sweet employs q for /ng/ and c for /tsh/. Sweet uses two base pronunciations for romic, RP and American. He wants the notation to be elastic enough to accomodate both.
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