r/shavian

I was reading the spelling section on shavian.info, and I noticed that it says to use 𐑟 and 𐑕 depending on the sound the word makes at the end, for example “writers” ends in a Z-sound but “cats” ends in an S-sound.

Is this because certain plurals are universally pronounced with a particular sound?

I ask because nearly all American accents don’t articulate the T-sound in a lot of words, for example “bitter” and “bidder” at both just pronounced “bidder”. Despite being pronounced exactly the same by most, if not all Americans, there isn’t an inherently “American” spelling where these would be written the same, “bitter” is still “𐑚𐑦𐑑𐑼" and "bidder" is still "𐑚𐑦𐑛𐑼".

Edit: Forgot to mention, I'm aware that Shavian spellings may not align perfectly with actual pronunciations depending on your accent, but since the T vs D thing is quite universal among Americans it just made me wonder.

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