New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-21

irg rgrrJ.ng DcEci!Ep, pErGVc.Hg, ptsto.Ing, POM
ding orau9i;ir bgo:ci gossipp,ng g'bbi,iag,
,,r Tss Is, Si,ht he extended 10 several hun
cred words Who, in this short he, Is 10 remember
The twen'y.eigh, exceptions, and spei properv
The more sensible inquiry u, Why have any e1eep-
tioos Can any reason be gwen Tor making tnese ea
tons, oiher than precedent Not the shsntes''
prucpe il needed which every PRIMARY schootooy can
understand and appb, and which will Danish al DOUBT
and uncertainty arising irom THIS veaatious anomaly
Webster has such rule, Indicated by ansosy aui
good usage, and follows it strictly, which Is TINS;
Prmi'ives ending with sim e consorant, preceeded
by single vowel, and Gcceafed 90 ne last sytaoe
d, ubs the final cOrsonsnt, as control, controAe re-
f.r referring; when not accented IN the last sylaoe
II ey I" no, double the nal cunsonan A. terc ocre.
iHg r6r-sbf- t-OrskIpiRg. LOwth Ash Perry and
Walker advocated this rule, anc good writers followed
il before Wrb,t,Ts Gay; and nov we are told Webser
is an innov.torl Walker said, Why we should write
" hbelliRe irrc!Hg rrrtiEg and yet QJeriHg, sE5r-
" ing rcGs0HlHg, au totally at loss 20 determine.
Worcester states the rule correctly, and says; This
form lbeyelLs. benefr-, etc. only wants the Sane
"rsn II prev arg usage 10 render II The preferable
or.bcc,aphy" Tni. form has hsd tha; sanction
stree the above sentence written. It's therefore
s, present the preferable orthogrsphy. we have
- Guollisf. let us have porcltSf.
Ill. oris properly spelled with one l. when WEEP
si,r spells with two.
The fr.t three examples are interpretations.
Webster aud Worcester spell them ankle, VIZ Con-
troll enroll, irthra with cross reference from
enthrsln The remaining examples are correctly
ea mdsse 1t is the alOgy Of the language that prim-
ativ.s ending with double consonsnt retain BOTH
when in composition The accent falls upon that syua-
bic, as illness, stAness, ehHess sp'aHEesS, ,u.IHess
sLrfAnesS grgJHess Stiffness croSSEess, &c. Worce.-
ter inserts the double con-nant IN all The foregoing
words but omits il from dRiHess taaess, tHlfH ia'
SAL dtsiH sktlfai, and lcsul EE.hraf, under TINS
ptr cipe requires the double !. Worcester writes the
word cRthrament which lesds to the error in prouun
citation If giving the short instead ot the broad sound
TO in the accented syllable. Walker says there is no
reason Why we should not write duLlReSs, JnIHsSs,
skHtai a-thtnl well as illness, sfsgRess, grgJaess,
cro.sress "unless We determined to have no rule
in our orthos raphy, good or bal" Fa.hH Is re-
dur dsnt compound Of full and fill II the accent be-
onged the first syllable, the spelling would be
fulfH Full has become regular English formative,
aud by common consent, a. the end OF compounds Is
contracted 10 Jul as Ike Is contracted to ty. We
write htaltIGt, smoothly not heGNyuH, Sm0othhkf.
IHstW and dstiH are written with Tue double conso
nan, for several reasons; LIST, Eymoogy demands it
n ey come from the Latin root SA0 % drop:
Cd the iral liable of each il accented 81, aud If
contracted. might lead 10 an ambiguity Of accent.
". Words properly terminating In r., which WEB
ster spells er.
WHY has the critic limited US 70 only thirteen words
out of several hundred that have come % US from the
Frerch with the termination or ? Does he mean to
throw all their companions overheard, with the hope
If saving this bakers dozen Why are nitre salt
petre srtctre seDuickrs all spelled thus ia WOfcesers
last eciiion To be ruthessy sacrificed II might
have been surmised that writer who coujured up
"
nOned these useful words into service. Few and Pc
lect as are his present available forces We regret 10
inform him that mutiny is already rite In his camp.
Calibre the captain of his squad, has already gone
over 10 the enemy tsee Worcester revised 1919 and
the rest of the column is waverng. Worcester has in-
consi-tencies Ike these, metre lmeasurel, aud ts
derivatives herdmter measure OF SIX eef thermome-
ter measure of heat, diameter measure through
lie has meter which the pupil would naturally pro-
nource m, tree. and 70 guard against this false pro-
noupciatiOn he Is obliged TO insert Ter III parenthc-
SIS which the genuine photography OF the original
Saxon word. No analogy Of the language Is better
established than that in foreign words ending bre gre
ire etc. coming into our language where they are
pronounced bsr GER ter etc. the last two letters are
transposed Hundreds Of words have contOrned to
this analogy while about twenty have, some sor
longer and Others for shorter time stood ont against
IT, In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries heaer,
sDecter, TER, etc, were the common spelling Sir
I-aac Newton, Camden, Milton, Pope, BDlngbrokc,
Selden Whitaker ard Others wrote thls ia the
restoration of Charles H. the influence Of the French
court and manners restored partially French termna-
tons Ia English words. From that time to the present
mage in England has been unsettled With regard tn
few words Of this olass, the tendency being 10 come
back 20 the true English form. The beet mathematics
ans of Greenwich to-day write center a. did Sir Isaac
Newton. Websters Unabridged gives both forms 10
about fifteen words always prrferriug that which
forms to the analogy and genius of our language We
hope that in future editions the French form will be
omitted except in three words, acre, massacre and
luc,e from the liability Of before eto be proncuuceds
We have now considered in detail the four classes OF
alleged nova.ions in Websteran Ortbography. The
bobgoblin we rust has been Invested OF its fearful
aspect ard We submit the result-a sound conserys-
tive ODE. of the analogy and best usage of tie
language.
There needs No ghost, my lord, come from the grave
To tell u. this