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@AngharadHafod @nspugh Or possibly VUH? (Rhag ofn i bobl ddarllen VU fel déjà vu neu'r sinema... In case people read VU like déjà vu or the cinema.) Neu V-UH?

@tortipede @nspugh that works I guess. I don't really like imitated pronunciation, I wish we'd all stick with the IPA. That's what it's for.

@AngharadHafod @nspugh It is, and I agree to a certain extent; but when the people you're respelling things for aren't familiar with it, it fails to achieve your goal. (Also, I interact with Mastodon almost exclusively on my phone, so IPA is hard! X-SAMPA could work, but then (a) I'd have to re-learn that, and (b) I'd find that no one else understood it...)

@tortipede @nspugh me too (mostly), but I have the Gboard IPA keyboard installed

@AngharadHafod @nspugh I use Microsoft SwiftKey which has multilingual spellcheck etc inc Welsh & Gaelic, but doesn't offer IPA. I'm not familiar with Gboard...?

@tortipede @nspugh Gboard is Google's keyboard. It too has multilingual support. I've got 13 languages + IPA keyboards installed. You can do two or three language input at once, but it's not very reliable (at least, not with Swype) - I guess because there's a much greater range of possible words for it to choose between when predicting the next.

I've got Welsh and North Sámi installed, amongst others, and it seems to have a huge number of possibilities.

@AngharadHafod Yeah, I've got it now; but given that I'm already sending Microsoft all my data, and possibly trust Google even less these days, I think I might reserve Gboard for the IPA. For that, it certainly looks good :)