Oops,
all,
Should have said, "...pages holding tens of thousands
of words listed under 1796 categories of spelling codes currently employed
with the letters of the Roman-French-English alphabet used for the
scribed language of the United States." This means there is an average of 42
different codes to spell each one of the 42 basic phonemes of American English.
That's not the average three or four or so codes guessed at by other
so-called studies of the problem. Former proponents of spelling reform were
aware of less than one twelfth of the problems with scribing English. Good
advice might be, "Don't fix anything when 91% of the problem is
unknown."
As for American homophones-- the basis of
Stefan's quest-- my collection contains over 11,000 of them in manuscript. The
largest compilation in print in English reached 2,500 recently. They might be a
small start for working up a computer program. French contains at least
three times as many spelling codes as English. It may take someone less
than 40 years to list them all. And analyse which of them constitute
homophones. (Does 'aimez' have 150 homophones?) Then, the next language-- toward
an elite "eleven"? Then a hundred+ scribing systems that use the 'Roman'
alphabet?
Donald.