Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1892 — Out Spelling. [ARTICLE]

Out Spelling.

Advocates of the phonetic system of spoiling are again active, and the following is the latest evidence of their attempts at reform: English spelling Is the worst Jn the world. Millions of dollars are wasted eaoh year In the writing and printing of useless letters. The education of our children is retarded and the progress of our people is hampered by our cumbrous, illogical, misleading orthografy. The scholarship of the world is almost a unit in demanding a chang). The American Philological Association has recommended the following rules for new spelling, and a resolution has been Introduced in Congress instructing the Public Printer to use them in all printing for the Government: 1. Drop ue at the end of words like dialogue, catalogue, etc., where the preceding vowel is short. Thus spell demagog, epilog, synagog, etc. 2. Drop final e in such words as definite, infinite, favorite, etc., whore the preceding vowel is short. Thus spell opposlt, preterit, hypojrit, rcquisit, etc. 3. Drop final te in words like quartette, coquette, olgarette, etc. Thua spell oigaret, roset, epaulet, vedet, gazot, etc. 4. Drop final me in words like programme. Thus spell program, orlllam, gram, etc. 5. Change ph to f In words like phantom, telegraph, phase, etc. Thus spell alfabet, paragraf, fllosc.fy, fonetio, fotograf, c;c. 6. Substitute e for the diftliongs n? and (B whon they havo the sound of that letter. Thus spell eolian, esthetic, diarrhea, subpena, eeofagus, athcnoum, etc. #*"lf you would array yourself on the side of progross, adopt the foregoing in all that you write, and especially In all that you print.