Engul is an alternate writing system for English invented by
Colin Harrison and inspired mainly by Korean. The idea is to
permit English to be written in syllabic blocks, while
preserving an essentially alphabetic character set. Why? Because
he believes that Hangul is possibly the smartest writing system
ever invented, and he wanted to see if its particular logic
could be applied to English. The consonants have been derived
from their English counterparts for the most part, but the
vowels are entirely different. Note that the symbol stands for
[h] if it is initial, and for [ŋ] if it is final. Note also the
distinction between initial and final "r". Note also the special
symbol for the final "-r" (rhotic syllable final) which is
generally silent in nonrhotic dialects of English (British,
Australian, New Zealand...). This same symbol is also used for
cluster-final "r" (e.g. br- str-, NB. In clusters the rhotic
final is always pronounced, regardless of the dialect). It is a
downward and leftward curving hook, wr