Teeline

Week 2

Teeline rules continued (Unit 8 - 13)

26. 'AY' at the end of a word. If the last letter of a word is a 'Y' but it takes its sound from the preceding 'A', use an 'A'. Tip: It is better to use a full vowel 'A' after 'H', 'M' and 'P'. Also, if the ending of a word is 'EY, but sounds like an 'A', use an 'A' i.e. in the word 'obey'. If a word ends in 'EY', use an 'E' rather than 'EY'.

27. ' I ' and 'Y' at the end of a word. If words finish in either 'IE'. where the 'E' is silent, 'IGH' or 'Y' and the word is pronounced 'I' at the end, use an ' I '. Tip: It is clearer if you write the ' I ' upwards when following a 'G', 'H', 'M', 'N'. 'P' or 'SH'.

28. 'OY' in a word. If a word has 'OY' in it, use a Teeline 'Y'. It does not matter whether the 'OY' comes in the middle or at the end of the word.

29. 'Y' in the middle of a word. This is rare, but if this does happen and the 'Y' sounds like an ' I ', like with most cases concerning vowels, you can just leave it out. With some words however such as 'system' and 'cycle', it makes a clearer and faster letter joining, if you put the ' I ' in.

30. Where the word has a distinct sound, i.e. in the word lawyer, then the 'Y' must be shown.

31. Vowels at the beginning of words. When a vowel begins a word, the vowel indicator is generally used. The full vowel is used if the indicator does not join up well and in some words that indicator can be written upwards.

32. Letter A - before 'V', 'W' and 'X'. write the upstroke of full vowel 'A'.

33. 'AU' can be represented by indicator 'A' at the beginning of a word but, to make reading back easier, the full vowel 'A' is usually used to give a clearer outline.

34. Letter 'U' - as the indicator would not show before 'P', use the full vowel 'U'. In fact, the full vowel 'U' is much clear than using the indicator as it distinguishes 'U' from 'E'.

35. Full vowel 'U' represents the heavy sound of 'U' at the end of words.

36. Letter 'O' - the indicator 'O' is turnt on its side and blended with 'M' to make 'OM' and 'MO'.

37. Often when 'ON' is used, the hook of the 'N' is omitted. Tip: Make sure the 'ON' blend does not look like a 'Y'.

38. 'I' Indicator for '-ING' - if 'ING' is repeated the indicator is written twice. Other letters may be joined to the indicator. In the grouping, 'the' may be added to the disjoined indicator. 'TH' is written to give a better outline.

39. 'INGLE' - a disjoined 'L' is written in the 'ING' position to represent 'INGLE' at the end of a world.

40. When a word ends in 'INGLY', '-LY' is written in the '-ING' position.

41. In the same way, use: 'A' indicator for '-ANG', 'O' indicator for '-ONG', 'U' indicator for '-UNG' and 'E' indicator for '-ENG', which usually has '-TH' or '-THEN' added.

42. Words may have a combination of indicator endings. Disjoined vowel indicators are not used when 'E' is added to the ending giving the soft sound of 'ANGE', 'ENGE', 'INGE', 'ONGE' and 'UNGE'.

43. 'ING' or 'INGS' can be used for 'thing' or 'things' in a grouping.

44. A disjoined vowel indicator with a 'C' added gives us more word endings. 'ANK': 'A' indicator plus 'C'. Other letters may be added to the disjoined ending. 'INK': ' I ' indicator plus 'C'. 'ONK': 'O' indicator plus 'C'. 'UNK': 'U' indicator plus 'C'.

45. 'NCE' - a 'C' disjoined at the end of a word represents the ending '-NCE' with any preceding vowel or combination of vowels.

46. Other letters such as 'S', 'D', 'R', the 'ING' ending and 'Y'.

47. '-CH' - some common words can be shortened by leaving off the 'H'.

48. '-NCH' - a disjoined 'CH' at the end of the word represents '-NCH'.'

49. Forms of 'F' and 'L'; 'F' blends are special in Teeline because they have more than one form. This makes the joining of letters clearer and easier. The 'F' can be written upwards or downwards. (Tip; using the downwards 'F' before 'N', 'C', 'V' and 'K' will give a better outline).

50. The upward 'L' is never used at the beginning of a word, only at the end or in the middle.

51. If the upward 'L' is used, the ' I ' indicator must also be written upwards.

52. 'T' and 'D' after 'R' and upward 'L'' - always disjoin the letters 'T' and 'D' when they follow an 'R' or an upward 'L'. This makes a better and more recognisable outline.

53. 'F' blends - It makes no difference if 'FR' or 'FL' is wrote like this or with a vowel in between.

54. 'F' can be blended with several other letters and in some cases it means that the 'F' has to be put on its side.