Thomas E. Zurinskas

Thomas E. Zurinskas is the creator of truespel, theworld's first pronunciation guide spelling for USAEnglish. His experience is as a technical editor,human factors specialist, database specialist, andquality assurance specialist with the Federal Aviation Administration. His HF design background led him to create a user-friendly phonetic system for USA English. Using voicings from popular talking dictionaries, he respelled the English language in USA accent. This created a database for a unique analysis investigating how the sounds of USA English are spelled in traditional spelling (he calls tradspel). He has applied truespel to other languages andcompared them to USA English in terms of soundfrequencies. Current efforts are detailed attruespel.com. He lives with wife, Bonnie, inGreenacres, Florida.