Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1877 — London Times’ Spelling. [ARTICLE]

London Times’ Spelling.

The ’limes is original, even in its spelling. Reproducing one, of ray paragraphs last week, I see that, where I spoke of “farthest,” the Times Will have it “ fnrtlierost. ” It is possible, of course, that the Times is right and the Mayfair wrong about this word; but certainly all the dictionaries I have consulted are in favor of Mayfair, and I kuow, moreover, that the Times has two or three odd notions about spelling certain words, I remember Prof. Tyndall, or some other eminent physicist, remarking that chemists had not been able to discover any force of nature that could compel the Times to spell chemical as it ought to be spelled. It will put y where it should be e, and make a chemist into a ch?/mist. It has a queer idea, too, about dioces.B. It will call a marquis a marquess, and an era an “cera.” There is, however, a limit to its eccentricities. It never yielded to the charm of novelty involved in the new spelling of the names of classical characters and countries, and Kikero andSopholsl s continue to appear in their old familiar dress. — Mayfair.