The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-01-04
For the Educational Department.
Spelling Reform.

Spelling Reform.
tigte in your last weeks educal iona depart |
ment upon the subject Of Primary Reading
from NJ iss Mary l.. DAWSON in which the
Phonetic and Phonc method of learning
t. fead our common print was fayorabIy
No ioed / have for twenty years been sni
Advocate Of thss method and was pleased TO
ace any notice OF the subject fr0m any enc
who las the subject OF teaching in charge.
Tie word me nod has prmatiye origin
III ne Intercollegiate method and IL very
effective one SO or as you can accompany ii
w,h so good an object lesson 10 q child as
the picture OF dog OF cat; but it Is only
tue nouns thai You can so illustrate. 1he
Phonetic method is easy, suggestive in the
o arl complete aAd truthful 20 the esG; bnt
the teacher shon be master Of the method
hrlorc undertaking It. 1t may be interest
IiQ 10 those teachers not already informed,
whas advancement is being made in the
Phonetic cause commonly called tbs
g. ling Reform. Some City years ago the
y antsh nation 70 formed their language
making 1t nearly Phonetic. The Germans,
who Derate us so much on our barbarous
Spe ling, are making strenuous eadeAvors to
r.d heir ewn language OF It's few defect In
this line. A Government conference vas
IL ugurataa last January to restrict tie uss
of capitals, the double letters, Tbs in short
o. llaoles and in long eues far as can be
done, and mere cosmopolitan movement
"the gradual ntrod action Of thu antique
tl,e adoption Of be English alphabet. The
"anllque" means to go back to its old Latin
ali habet TIE ecrthes 0flbe 1871 and l4tb
Cen ures in an effort to display their art or
perhaps to make tue printed and written
page appear alike corrupted and dsfgured
the 5eauHful and practieao ole latin type, for
tielr present fantastic one. Our old Auglo
Saxon English ortlography was in like man
Bar corrupted and thrown INTO hotchp otGh
by the Norman Conquest of England from
wnich six Centuries have not been able 10
sentErall it The Welch in their MountsiA
i"stuesses maintained their language intact
az much 50 that 1t requires only one third Of
tn lime to master ther language 1t does
the English
For the last 200 years isolated scholars aid
practical individuals have strenuously sdvo.
Gated reform In our spelling In iS46 Isaac
P'tman, Alexauder Ellis and others in Eng-
land inauaerAt, n movement coming rost
ly from the common people for a thorough
Spelling Reform upon the Phonetic basis;
that is u ie't tex for every recognized sound #
our language adding sixteen new letie to
the ALPHABET, giving II 40 sounds. This
movement Obtained quite foOtho]d IT, En- :
land and sti nas. In 1850 it was introdu crd
into the Unted States and during the ten
years before the war had made commenda
biz progress The war with it's subsequent
exciting and depressing eveets has tor The
last fifteen years kept this ubject In abey-
ance, but within the last year or two it has
taken new start from different source and
upon more permanent basis The move.
ment Ut 1850 was an uprising Of the people
against the drud ,ery aud slavery OF our or
typography and demanded thorough and
radical reform The present. movement is
coming more from the earned and profess
sonal classes, more practical and conserva-
tive.
During our late Centennial a four DAYS
international Convention was held In Phil
Adephla from The l4th to the 18th IF August
inclusive, for tho consideration Of .his sub
Ject. Perhaps the ablest paper read before
the convention was the address Of Pref. T
A March of Lafayette College CHI irman If
the Committee on Spell ing, of the American
Pathological Association.
A great deal of effective work was done
and Tore origina ed at this convention, AM
experimental alphabet was agreed upon
having Latin basis Semi Phonetic enter.
prizes were considered and maturely discuss.
cd. Such as the Digraph system, DR.. !
Edwin Lelghs ingenious system wherein the
child's primer by means Ola different shadiuy
reads Phonetic and hetero iplc at the same
time, and the dropping ct eli silent ana
double letters as Tar as possible The Reform
seems to be again hopefully inaugurated The
London Board OF Education al its last meet
ing proposed a radical hauge IN our spelling.
Other nations are moving, America will soon
tollow-Che Reform must and VIII come. 1t /
Is monstr Gus wickedness longer TO mpose |
upon the present and unborn millions who !
are TO speak The English language the bar |
oArlsms OF the dark ages,-a thl ee years toll |
to learn what can never be but partially &C. |
CURED, aid this at the sacrifice of all msntal
and moral process, that We may perpetua,e
meoleVal fetlsh' j. B. J1LsUN. |
THE COURSE OF STUDY IN OUR DTS
TRI0T SCHOOLS.
One Of the fundamental errors Of Our com
Innn schnnl system Is thn u..1