, 1870-04-24
and also tho curious composition eent in by a
rar1enter;
a. d.
To wooden box and wooden (wputdnr]
1O
To wooden box and 4 wood lwuuIdJ do. O

iOAl..-,....-.. ..-..--.+.---.+--...-...s I q
are hard 10 beat; ~ ia the chalwoman'e claim
to payment for skesering the stsrs;' whsle,
as specimen Of concise phonetic spelling, IT
IA fo1 whiting. in The eame bill. ID highly
meritorious. But in this country wo DO
rot see such audacions mis-spellings, delib-
e1atcls painted On signbosttls OF notifications
a. arc commen in France, neither do our
raintcfs begin their work entirely 1t hAp-haz,
ard. and without measurement, so as to bo
Obliged to squeeze in the last two or three
letters in diminutive size, looking - il they
we're whispered. We remember TO have seen,
in the course Of Al afternoon walk in the neigh
lsorhood Of q little French town, the simple an
uouncemeut OF Iiceo OF land Tor sale. varied,
in the most ingcniops manner, six different
lre. :" "Terrin," s'Iairsin," and ali imaginable
changes r1ng on the three words. Snch 4
thing could not be seen now in England,
though a tradition is still prese.ved in antique
Is rap-books Of q haudbi1l once exhibited in tho
windows Of 1odGing-hodse in Edinburgh
Hay sack and flour to let; chicken and car
ret"
Eut, setting aside such utterly barbarous
compositions Al tho above, \ great many
Norsle il, everyday use are both spelt and pro-
1nuneel unquestionab!y in wrong manner +;
aud yet, like equAtters on common. have
been allowed to rcmain 80 long unrhauenged
as to have become very difficult uf electrocnt-
Ethlu 3HAuflltE Auu Sl0%EulDCSS. We Alo ~
the llabit Of allowing tuisspelliu9s ard nais-
rrpnuflciationa to be forred upon r,s by tho
ignorant And ilhtez4te they are the majority
and VIC find it easier and nlure convenient to
speak their tongue than to impose our OVID
ulou them thus obeSing the Law Of dctctio-
tation which Fesms 10 attend III earthly
things. The tendency Of nainctng, which is =
Characteristic OF the vulgar, has given us such
words ~ window for wtndoor, turcen for Ter
tinc, potato md E1ottc ket pat4tA2nd grottA
Tho notion prevalent among the uneducatee
that = final . Always denotes the plu
ral haa led to tho clipping Of fo!elgE
She11is in Enslsb- -mcrinoe, reps, into ahery
merino, rep. In the sanne way, hskshoesh7 tht
| CRY Of the Christmas morIiee or Moo1ial
danceEe, auEGcised into boxes, has becoual
| lCLristmas) box. The transposition Of letter.
| those who spell only By ear. hsa beon th.
cause Of many variations and alterations o.
| spelling in all lAnguaEea- We may instance
hoard, broad; bird. brid: eht1ere, sheriff
1 flnsy. fimsy; and these Pcz1nutstions hAvt
| oftcn left u two Ways Of spelling the SAINT
ton, Burlington; Chesilhurst ChislehursE
one chronological, the other phonetic.
! Different notiona Of the representation OF
| sounds produce such varieties as efoke, cloak
! plain, plane, atc- !; bnt eren il it were possi
| }lc to reduce al these to = common depou1i
I H. fQAf OS HUuQkNA NHElkltI E9k4 \ Et4i
summation would be desirable When word,
| though it be really one and indivisible-hAt
come TO be used in different senses, it il , con
1 ye1ience to have dise1sity in tho mode oi
! s,,ellinE III order to distinguish them. tn.
Times Newspaper has lstely taken to spell
chc4ue, check. Nothing is gained By thie, ant
something ia lost; for, while in that pashcula
renee Of call on banker it alwsys WAS spell
cle1uc, thcre was no doubt On Anyones mini
At liIst sight Whit it meant, whereas now tht
| reader has to gather it from the context, anc
/ nav even then b left in uncertainty. II
I bc consistent, the Times should adopt TIL
checkers Of old inn signboa1ds in place Of q
though identical with drAnght, il never 1oP
posed TO signify either current Of air = drink
or pull, but always to refer TO something
| drawn up on paper, As draft Of deed, drAf
| on a banker, DC. Antique and anhc, Agnsn
have in the courre Of time come to mean dif
ferent things and it would be aetuany TOD
| hing us Of 4 word-or, II least, OF method o
| c1rreeeion-to insist upou our accepting elthe
one a tho cthe. cn1x, and writing Of the n y.
| ti1ues Of pantomi1ue clo1p- OF the ann
towcrs Of Windsor.
Thcec variations, however, arc defenAbt
only 20 far As both ways OF spelling, leAr
tic orlcin OF the word clear; nuch Il obscur
and disfigure It must never BE- allowed, Fo
example, the uoun-anbstantive spill Is dc
fined by johnson. "A shivet Of wood {
metal" Spi1lilin Is its diuinutive, ant
therefore, the Appropriate mama gwen to
cbild's toy consisting Of small ahiveEs,
wood, bone, or ivory: but ignorant tssdes
men nov print tho name sl,euieas-sptu
eant would be more to the parpose-theIeh
losing both meaning and derivation Ih
il quite inA<lmiseible and got il is cot eas
10 eee how such abuses csn 10 checked
hIr. Arnold would bc fos. applying b
f.vorite panaceA Of an academy; but n
. court Of arbitration wiH atail, an1ess Il
. ruhhc will takc the trouble to appeal to il
md indiHerence on the subject is unfotta
nately the rule, and rot tho exception. Fo
people care xhsshor they speak. wEsse Y !;
, themselvea nndasBtood. 1heJ arc ike . lA<
Tho Tss told thai rinderpest, being dezna1
word, ought not to Be- pronounced rtnde
! pest, * hnax great many people CAV