Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1883 — Phonetic Spelling. [ARTICLE]

Phonetic Spelling.

“M-i-e-i-s-dp-i, that don’t look right,” exclaimed S late recruit to the brigade of newspaper correspondents. “’Ow do you sphl Mississippi?” he continued, appealing to a bystander} “I don’t believe I 'ave it right." “Yes, yOu haVc,” returned the party of whom information had been asked. "It don’t strike me as exactly right, yon know," was the doubting response. “Ah, yes, ndw 1 remember. How stupid in me, toW sUre. It is spelled M-r-s-i-p-L ” And tile letter was sent, with the father of watert tinsexed fts above set forth.-= WetHimal Republican. a Be courageous and noble-minded} Sur trigfl heart and not other men’s Ipiniotkß of hs forms otir true honor.—