Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1909 — Program and Programme. [ARTICLE]

Program and Programme.

Our boys and girls have noticed, of course, that the dropping of the "me” from the word "programme” is becoming more and more general. This is not so much in obedience to the demands of the so-called "phonetic reform,” as it is a move towards uniformity in spelling words that have the tremination “gram.” The word comes regularly from the Greek “programma,” and really should be “programme,” but the advocates of the shorter form say that If we write "diagram,” "telegram,” “epigram,” etc., we might as well write “program,” especially as the final “me” is not sounded. But you should not fall into the incorrect pronunciation that many people art guilty of, and “pro-grum”; the accent is on the first syllable, of course, but the "gram” is distinctly sounded like “am.”