<199410251000.LAA21606@brest.ifremer.fr> > No, it is not a question of dialectal form but a question of spelling > convention. Spelling is bound to prononciation anyway. 'ur' and 'eur' won't be pronounced in the same way. > The problem of Breton spelling is linked to the problem of > dialect. It is hard to have a spelling convention independent of the > dialectal prononciation. Exact! And trying to unify the spelling leads sometime to strange 'multiphonetic' writings... That's the great point of Chinese: an almost unique written language for several spoken languages. Should we try to create an ideographic system? :)