Mor Orthografy

Some refinements. Comments are welcome!

The new orthography uses the following letters and digraphs
(examples are standard English):

Vowels:

ee,y beet, need [1]
i pit, dig
ae made, slay
e bed, kept
a cat, mad
u luck, pluck, sub [2]
oo,w food, moot [1]
eu book, put
oe toe, rode
o pot, caught, clod
ie buy, pie, fly

(Update: ‘a’ is pronounced ‘u’ word-finally.)

Diphthongs:

ue use, yule [3]
ou loud, cow
oi boy, roil
or snore, pour, lore [4]
ar are, par, bar, star
ur purple, lurk
er air, hare, lair

Consonants:

b Bob
d dad
g agog, gig, *never* age
p pop
t tot
k cake
x axe, *never* xylophone [5]
v verve
dh then, the
f fluff
th thin, think
h hat
z zoo
zh leisure, pleasure
j,jh judge [6]
s sass
sh shush
c,ch church [6]
l loll
m mom
n none
ng singer, *never* longer, which is ‘longgr’
w wow
y yay
r roar

Rules

The indefinite article is ‘a’ or ‘an’.

The plural morpheme, and the present 3rd-person singluar verb
ending, is ‘ez’. This will pretty much always be written ‘z’ (see
below).

The past participle ending is ‘ed’, almost always written ‘d’. As a
general rule, the new orthography should be proactive in regularizing
past participles: ‘keepd’, ‘sleepd’, etc. Is it too early in this
process to use ‘seed’ and ‘beed’ for ‘seen’ and ‘been’?

Word-final voiced consonants may be written without a preceding
vowel.

Not sure whether (or where) to allow gemination. Perhaps before word-
medial stressed syllables?

Notes:

[1] ‘y’ and ‘w’ are substituted for ‘ee’ and ‘oo’ in syllables that
are both short and unstressed. Note that the pronouns ‘I’ and ‘me’
may be used instead of their new equivalents ‘Ie’ and ‘my’, for
sentimental reasons.

[2] Unstressed vowels are spelled with their regular counterparts.
‘u’ is only used where it retains its value in a stressed syllable.

[3] Some dialects pronounce ‘tune’ or ‘news’ with this diphthong;
the orthography will only use this digraph for those cases where it
is in the majority of dialects.

[4] Non-rhotic dialects will just have to grin and bear it.

[5] ‘x’ should never be used for the plural of a word ending in
‘k’. Thus (std) ‘socks’ -> (new) ‘sokz’.

[6] The two are equivalent, and may be chosen simply for aesthetic
reasons.

Example:

Tw bee, or not tw bee, dhat is dh kwestchn:
Wedhr tiz noeblr, in dh miend, tw suffr
Dh slingz and erroez v outraejus forchn,
Or tw taek armz agenst a see v trublz,
And bie oppoezing end dhem. Tw die, tw sleep,
Noe mor; and bie a sleep tw sae wy end
Dh hart-aek and dh thousnd nachrl shokz
Dhat flesh iz er tw, ‘tiz a konswmmaeshn
Devvoutly tw by wishd.