Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1909 — PUBLISH SIMPLIFED WORDS [ARTICLE]

PUBLISH SIMPLIFED WORDS

Spelling Board Issues an "Alfabetlc" List—To Be Given Free. New York, March G. —The simplified spelling board has published the promised alphabetic list of simplified spellings under the title "Alfabetlc List of Simplifications in Spelling as Recommended by the Simplified Spelling Board.”

The list contains almost 1,100 separate words in the simplified form (such as rime, gard, Hand, autum, center, Honor, heltli, aetiv, lmagin, doctrin, etc.), and 2,200 forms ending “ed” now simplified to "d” or “t” according er they are pronounced (as armd, bumd, compeld, Instild, snapt, stept, dropt, stopt). The pamphlet is promised free to all who will send a request to the board, 1 Madison avenue, New York.