The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-02-23
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS PARTY.
NO. x

Ny DEAR SHARLpT:-In my last | in
dictated the great dcsideratum of our
English race in regard to our peerless
| language, in making it in fact what it s"
richly deserves tsbe, The Language Of tie
ao4rtd. And this want is simply to come
back to nature, In It's dress-ts spelling,
and thereby rxemplity the poets ideal
q" that nature is when unadorned, -adorn
ed the most" That | am, not alone in
this let me cite you one OF two author-
ties from other nations. The French
Able Siccard says, ''of all languages til,
English is the most simple, the most ra
tional, no language seems bet
ter calculated to f,cllitaie the intercours,
of mank ind as 8 uniosr$nL 1asans Of co0a
nonnicatiOn." The eminent German
Phil gist Professor Grimm remark !:
"Athoug the French language has for
centuries been the common language Of
Europe in a diplomatic and social sense.
yet it has never obtained firm footing
in large tract of country beyond Europe
y y On the other hand English
may be considered the language of the
ao0rtd out of Europe and this idiom( (which
by u bold mixture of Gothic and Roman
elements, and by fusion of their gram
NAUTICAL forms, which this renders neces>a
ry) has attained al Incompatible degree
of fiuency and appears destined by ma
ture, more than any othe:' that exists, to
become the worlds language dbl n TIA
whimsical, aatiquated orthography stand IN
the Gag, the uniuersaIity Of this Language
soouM be still more evident, and zoe other
Europeans mag esteem ourselves fortunate
that the English mutton has not net nude
the discovery" Here is the secret. we
poor blind oats, "havn't yet made tue
discovery or if We have we do not heed
it Franklin prophesied. "sooner or
later this thing will come to pass" Sir
John Herschell said :" it would be one of
the most valuable acquisitions to man
kind facilitating the intercourse between
nations and laying the foundation for
uniUcr$aI language" Chambers in his
Papers for the people says VIC violate
every principle of \ sound alphabetical
system more ouorageousl y than any other
nation whatsoever. Our spelling canno
be matched for whimsical caprice. L.
Myrrh be taer why not syrrh for sir, if
qn,y is 10 why not muay for nae," &c.
Let me illustrate this matter by one
simple word, no; now if we give the
letter n its proper sound (not its nam,.)
and the its long sound we have No,
no; here we spell it in the simplest way,
IN other words according to nature, sound.
form md sight are all in harmony. Now
suppose we discard nature, and take au-
.thorisy as there 10 no lack of it To find
out how We may dress up tlis simple
word no. 1t would be difficult to assign
q reason why the word no might not be
spelt In twenty different ways scih equal
proprsety, according 70 the following
examples and authorities, Webster. etc:
Non, MOVIE, nau, maui, new, noe,
on, o'oe houteur, hautboy, seq, folk
nou, nough, not moo, noe, noch.
mould, dough, depot, brooch, foe, cockburn
noa, nos, now, noah, nwo.
coat, grosvenor, knor, PharoaA, ssoord,
neo, neau, nog,
yeoman, beau, oglo.
How is that for phinssicalitu, for so
million of intelligent, cicilized, learned
philosophical human beings, the master
ace of the world. cutting up such pranks
before high Heaven and the sun by such
comical and absurd representatives of
the two sounds no. HU