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Spanglish spelling, also called restored English alphabetic spelling, is a spelling reform which attempts to restore a phonemic spelling for the English language.
It basically applies the Spanish value of vowels and consonants, allowing English to be spelt as pronounced: something which is not possible today. Unlike some other spelling reform proposals, Spanglish keeps some word in the same spelling, and most others are easily recognizable, but as with any spelling reform, Spanglish is arbitrary in which dialect of the English language it uses to decide on the new spelling. In the example below the might also be spelt in Spanglish de, depending on the accent and dialect used. The spelling foxx/fox is arbitrarily chosen to closely resemble the old spelling, a more phonemic spelling would be foks.
Example:
English: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy yellow dog.
Spanglish: Da kwik braun foxx jumpt owur da leyzy yello dogg.
(Alternatively the words fox and dog could be left in the traditional spelling.)