Shards of Consciousness

More Rules of Letter Elimination

The remainder of the letter elimination rules in notescript are relatively specialized. As always, if you are unsure about remembering a word, retain any letter that makes the word easier to remember.

Rule 5

Retain the final vowel before s.

Rule 6

Replace ies and ious with .s (with the dot above the s) .

The next four rules concern vowel diphthongs.

Rule 7

Initial ea and oa, and final ea pronounced ee, leave out the a.

Rule 8

Leave out one e in initial and final ee, and in finale oe and ue when they are pronounced oh and oo.

Rule 9

Leave out the final silent ue.

Rule 10

Leave out u after q.

Exercises

1. You have to wait in a queue to see risque performers.
2. The prologue of the book is a segue into the body of the book.
3. The eager scouts went to sea in a sailboat.
4. Their technique is fabulous.
5. I've seen quite enough plaque on your teeth, young man!
6. The quality of the writing was queer in the mystery I read.
7. Blogging is all the vogue in the realm of internet life.
8. City folk think Paul Bunyan is an oaf.
9. We were eager to acquire the skill of using notescript.
10. This sentence contains no epilogue, only another chance to practice our technique.