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The so-called simplified respelling is what I usually refer to as the Moo Goo Gai Pan school of phonetic transcription, concoted for those too lazy to learn even the simplest rudiments of phonetic transcription (which used to be taught in high-school English Courses during the few hours spent on How to Use the Dictionary).
In such cases the writer is using a phonetic spelling that reminds us of the incorrect attempts made by children or the uneducated at spelling these words.
Green is correct in writing that the (unabridged Funk & Wagnalls) Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1893) gives two pronunciations for each entry, but he is mistaken in reporting that one represents the popular pronunciation, the other showing the precise one [p.364]: there are two pronunciations because one employs a more popular, presumably understandable pronunciation key (called, in the phonetics trade, a broad transcription) while the other cleaves to a scholarly transcription (called a narrow transcription); if such a pattern were followed today, the first would be the simplified system used generally in most dictionaries and the second would employ the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (which, for their more recondite transcriptions, require a trained phonetician for their understanding).
phonetic rendition of video.
A comparison with some other languages, particularly languages with a largely phonetic spelling system--(German, Italian, Spanish)-- shows that this range of nonstandard spellings is an added bonus that our quirky English spelling system has given to the language.
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