An modified Unifon translator that use 43 letters, represents 43 important sounds instead of the classic 40. The original Unifon alphabet was made by John R. Malone in the mid-1950s as a teaching aid to help children acquire reading and writing skills. Like the pronunciation key in a dictionary, Unifon attempts to match each of the sounds of spoken English with a single symbol, though not all sounds are distinguished, for example, reduced vowels in other American dialects that do not occur in Chicago.
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