The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-10-09
The Spelling Reform.

VIII you allow brief plea for the
spelling reform, as it has now shaped
itself, and be kind enuf to print this
articl just as it is speld.
This movement, looking torjl the
fonctic Representatives. ov every word
in type and in correspondents, has as
sumed such dimenshuns, and has con
nected with it so many respectabl
names, that it can no longer be kept
down by ridicUl or silent contempt
a host ov names, prominent amung
which ar Prof March, L l. d, Of La
tayette College; Prof. w d. Whiting,
LII. ID, ov Yale College; Prof. S. S.
Haldeman, ov the University of Penn
sylvania; Prof. +. S. Child, Phi. d. ,ov
Harvard University; Hon. w. Z. Har-
rls, Superintendent ov schools ov St.
Louis Mo-, Civ us the asSmans that
caus has been taken in hand by men
who hav the ability and infuens to
pushit to final victory.
Professors in more than fifty ov the
leading colleges in the United States
hay given their names and inhuens to
the caus ov spelling reform.
The relijious and secular pres ar
taking an active interest in the subject,
and ar discussing it as it never has
been DISGUST befoor.
The Chicago Tribune has been
amung the foremost in the West and
adopted list ov words which ar to be
spelt fonetically The New York
Independent, Of Aug. +, has devoted
eight columns to an address on "The
Present State ov Spelling Reform in
America" by Prof. Francis A. March,
LII. d., President ov the Spelling Re
form Associashin Articles on the
subject have appeared in Scribner, for
September and October 1t will thus
be seen that the movement has now
weight and a momentum which insure
constantly increasing power over pub
lie opinion.
The Spelling Reform Associashin
starts out with this principle: That it
vii make the attack on the old sistem
in the line ov the least resistans.
1t does not propose to adopt, lat once,
a full font ov type, representing every
di erent sound in the language The
appearans. ov page thus printed
would shock the nerves ov that sensi-
tive being called the public TO such a
! degree that it would never recover.
The EFFORT is to make this change
where it is the easiest and most natu-
Fal Hens the following rules hav
been adopted by the Associashin.
/. Omit a from the digraf ca, when
pronounce as c short, as in helth, he'd
If b, e, d does not spell head what does
it spell?
2. Omit silent after short vowel,
as in hay, Civ, etc.
3. Write f for ph, in such words as
alfabet, anton, etc
4. When Il word ends with 4 double
letter omit the last, as in shall, elf, cg,
etc.
5. Change ed to whenever it has
the sound ov t, as in last, imprest, etc
The following words hav also been
recommended for immediate use: ar,
catalog, defnit. gard, Civ, hay, infnit,
liv, tho, thru, wisht.
These changes ar so simple an so
natural that anyone my contemplate
them without being especially horrif-
ed, and when the public become IA
miliar with the new spelling ov these
words they will ask, why not extend
50 good a rule to other words?
Their ar hundreds who would be
redy to enter upon this movement If
they only knew that it would result in
something. Yours truli.
a FONETISHUN.