Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1889 — Execrable Spelling. [ARTICLE]

Execrable Spelling.

N. Y, Sun. The ignorance of some people is inmake the countryman understand the bunco game; the stories of the victims are told each week in the papers which the country folks read, yet when the bunco man cries “Next!” they crowd up, almost quarreling for the honor of being cheated. Another thing that never seems to occur to the countryman--and to many a city man, too, for that matter —is that he can use the newspapers as a spelling book, or get other good from them than news. Two letters reached the Sun yesterday; the writer asked for “Webster’s tinder Bridge Dictionerry;” in the other, the writer said he could “youse” something if he had it. This second man lived in' this city. From the country some time ago came a letter asking, “What was the unforbedient fruit? Why did King slew Able?” And similar letters come almost every day, signed unblushingly “Constant Reader” or “Old Reader.” It never seems to occur to the writer that by signing himself so, and at the same time misspelling most atrociously half of his words, he writes himself down largely as an incorrigible sluggard who knows not how to use his opportunities; but he does; whether he knows it or not. b