Having Fun (1)

Charles Abbott

01 Dec 2025

Let’s have a little fun with a new language I’m calling “ChuckLyn ”.

Mostly, It’s a language composed of English words that are spelled like they sound to a native American speaker born, raised and educated in north Texas.

Sentences written using ChuckLyn words look like those written by a person who escaped school after 3rd grade but sound fine to the ear of any American.

Hear’s a a nauti example from 5th grade: b4 i 4k u, r u ovr 21? Some other examples are:

1) mi hat flu of n th wnd.

2) wil u go to th stor 4 me?

3) i red th buk frm cvr to cvr.

4) onli God nos wi I lik ths stuf.

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Combinations of vowels

ae ea ai ia ao oa au ua ay ya ei ie eo oe eu ue ey ye io oi iu ui iy yi ou uo oy yo My suspicion is that if any of these combinations occurs in a syllable of a word, one letter has a fair chance

Double Vowels

We already know that it is safe to drop one letter of double consonants but what about double vowels “a”, “e”, “i”, “o” and “u”? We learned in an earlier post that “oo” has the “u” sound and is written with a ”u”. I scanned the list of words output

Double Consonants

When a word contains double consonants, is it always safe to delete one letter? I did a deep dive into this topic by using a word finder tool to generate and examine a list of common words for every possible double consonant. I concluded the answer is yes with a

Sounds of “c”

If the letter “c” has a hard sound, it is written. However , if “c” has a soft sound like the letter “s”, just substitute the letter “s”. This commonly occurs when a word ends in “ce”. For example, words like face, race and nice can be shortened to fas, ras