 Now let's take a look at how we go from traditional spellings into the phonemic spellings. The first step in this process is identifying each unit of sound or each phoneme within a word. Let's look at bet, bit, but, and bought. The only difference in each one of these words is in the vowel sound. We have but, eh, and bought, but, ah. Each word simply uses three sounds. Now we have photo, oh, that's four phonemes. Now we have taxi, ah, e, that's five phonemes. We have unite, with a hidden phoneme in there being the y sound before anything else. Ooh, mm, aye, tch. Those are five phonemes as well. And now we have a longer word, chemistry. Let's give that a shot, mm, eh, e, that's eight phonemes used in the word chemistry. Now once we've isolated each sound, we want to assign a phoneme for each one of those sounds. Let's do that now.