inglish 0.1.0

translate english spelling to inglish — CLI translator and MCP server

Remember when you learned how to read English? We were taught some basic rules that allowed us to read words like see spot run. That sentence is great because it follows some simple rules we were taught:

• each letter has a sound
• the e after a vowel makes the vowel say its name

Not bad...

Then reality hit! See Spot Run is a unicorn! In reality, most words break spelling rules.

Instead of teaching math, the arts, ethics, science, etc, we dedicate time to teaching sight reading and spelling bees. (Many countries don't have spelling bees; there just isn't a reason for them.)

inglish shows you a world of spelling as defined by the CMU pronunciation dictionary and a set of simple rules to produce a consistent, reasonable spelling. You can use the tools we provide to translate English spelling to Inglish spelling. There is even a JavaScript fragment you can include on your website to translate it to Inglish.

There is also an MCP server (inglish_mcp.py) that exposes the translator to LLM clients such as Claude Desktop and Claude Code, with translate, lookup_word, and reverse_translate tools and the spelling rules served as resources. Install its dependency with pip install -r requirements.txt, then register it:

claude mcp add inglish -- python3 /path/to/inglish/inglish_mcp.py

The server can also run as a remote MCP endpoint over streamable HTTP (inglish_mcp.py --http); see deploy/ for hosting it behind nginx with TLS.