, 1879-03-02


Hiking for Boston and its ways, admire this cs
bDition Of breadth and wisdom! N. r.
ANOTHER SCHEME. -
Called the American Spelling Reform Sys
tem-Ton 1nnovatinE and Radical for Pop
ular Adoption.
70 the Editor Of The Tribune.
CHICAGO, Feb. 2S.-This new system Is dc
signed to provide separate letter, or IN easi',
DISTINGUISHED form Of letter,-and one o,ly,-fo
each sound employed in spelling all common
words in the English language, yet with as few
changes in our present alphabet as will permit
of attaining the grand object Of perfect spell
ins-systeu, whereby the alphabet only has to be
learned to enable the learner to spell all words
accurately, aud invariably as pronounced, with
cut the enormous task Of committing to mem.
DRY the widely-yared spelling OF every one Of
the thousands OF words We use.
THE vOwEI5 AND DIrnrnON6s.
| The principal difficulty has been in systema-
thing the rowels- In our present alphabet are
seven Qncludingw " n,.d 81, while in our spelling
there are thirteen vowel sounds {besidcs the
two diphthonesl-th long AMI short sounds of
tue flTc regular: vowels-a, e, j, 0, and u-mak-
ing ten, and the 90 in 'spoo1," the u in "pull,"
and the double; Tor broad) in "par" COM
pleting the number. Al especial, difficulty re-
! suited from the fact that the sounds Of aw and
ah are both spelled By short o. as in for and not,
and nlso by broad d, as in war and far, render
ing It not casy to decide to which OF those
| sounds to assign those letters SO as to observe
/ .ne p1'ne.pe VI que le,aeI !hVaF1ahlr 1or one
present use Of. tue letters as possible. All
| things considered, It was deemed hest 10 assign
to short the sound dm. as will be more fully
% expiained oetoW: on (strfctir speaking a7o is the
of0dd hnd On theutoad" sound OF a.
eraaes ol yowels @ was hnaliF decided up9n as the
most Simple, leGlpie, and practical: The five
VoWels Just as No" made tanu as used In ele-
nenIaE5 spelnng OF three letters, as IN fat, tit,
with plain horizontal line across their centres
}eAec1 = tohselI4te tI.e ionS 7owels' as tn bo,
W, ID. W, pu' \on1ostunatelF 1oT entire uni
lottn.ky .he l!1lnteo already ha9 line across
us eehtre, ana 10 use this 1or the long and cut
out the ,l, !ine 1or the Sport would leave 1t too
nearly iike q so its line was put across the top)
lne aouoe tot oroadj q aud double arc each
@ uesiE ~ snillar hol1zonIal line across the
.op ,nsteau ~ tnc centte. EAs long anu aouoIe
b Isl IT It the atter f Wss also 3. rs
.neenasu .!m = W 1eslsnalc Tue uouoie Aln "iun>'
pull" etc. IN tile same manner, thus COM
pletiag M uniformity OF Designation; but it 'sas
iSnnu Sa % tlat, III; hasty writing, tue aouo!e and
wy 'et~
SO nearly similar as to be liable to be mistaken
o, 1ne los tne o1ae'. it Was then contcmpElted to
u.esgnate ;ae oonole i" "1!l pe'pe'Mte"sor line
t1lnoueu ;',n n5 centIe' @hen upon writ
10 nearly hKe our present written 70,
M tla; WAS lIlay ueeinea pest 70 aoopt the lat
tei ~ rs pleseut snape 10 represent lhat sound
VI a. alfeauy has Just the required
st all, IN present use, us In "will,'' "wait,"
owl, 49, toNli'" ctc., ana lt may therefore
p properly oe USED 70 spell "iull" ttwl( "book"
toTh9' III AZ Fuuutu ~ ,f'snMul eM.
ne a!il!eu!tJ o. ueternnnS Nhetner 10 give
snort the so9nd o1 G1r as IN Lord" or ah, as
IN m. lot, e1x., Is mentioned above; 1t will !
iooh llttic odd to see lot " spelled i-d-t, but
eaalind otuel nunu now "ou!u look To see lor
i-a-rl3 1'ien in .n,s,isr;ner tha' ,in,t IL ho....
# the sm,nd nf nm wcr.. "1ven +, hro.a ~ ;nea.H
of short o, :.boy !, wouId hnye to he snnlI..d
h-ni jnsta,d ~ b.'.j ,,,d :. .toun ,, 70 spe"su
stead Of t-fHwn ri ,nI MI ow mr. tbc o,1, ran, .n
dinhthnnps This is rhv n shnrt ,,es ot! f, ~.
assfyned the so,,nd If = IN !. forc, ), in:,o"I,
that OF in slot y No ia uermanent and }nvsr,o. w.
bic sound in the new m system. It viii viii he scen
that it does nw,n w;t,, no and nv ent;rui, -" s'9u
viii look nncertn see "ts ~ enele ~ ,,i.
were We habitnatcG To seeing .eor,, miss,,e,1a, a
aw.r it wnnId nt ~ .oI'aiiS o,raar ~,
spelled or: @ '~0N ''s''' 4'''' ~ se' II
It NAV hc inon;rna sWhv mt ,,co do,e |
instead Of lines for ros nsrs use ooaS
least for some of +br1n ~ ~; n T., " e,r ~
rested dot over = IN on.sipnatc it's iono s,Sud
Puhi;shers viii ,nnror;sta tna os,,t oanu. ,i.!.
lots arf, ,.t Im,n1tr E~,mine nri,,7n nn ,on1r
usid tyncs' md nottce IN MN hsr nf ~ ~ ,s'
lots have worn az SsE nrinfers ,ytic,' th"vose
,ryubled mosr with -, corrrctinc Ill trn: s
lotleI Is or th. crr'eeea ~ ia hastns 1ps' hn nc
ire dots to be mt ysr csnta} letters tIs Iar nun
ny no shoulder over the ton. Furthrrmnr. T
rho wants it in liz no,yer Of m insi@n;fcan;
,ousc-!Iy to chauge hct into beet. his h,i
nto bead. orNnrGh@i ;nto ;, hcl hr ',.a st3sr ~
lotf Gu the case of thc can,tai r th.. ,inc ;s ,t
midway between the Inn line md tie ,.entrn nu'
,ut this would be less Practical with ,,ot h.,
nuse nrain ri s.nI vo,ld b. Iiah1a ~ ~ ~
odged n there ana a sndden1y tr,nsrn m IoT 10 es'
or iustapce. into an eaii ~ Ill e''
ro,:so,s ~ 49, s~1. .,,,,
NooSANts AMI p!AoHa'hs'
:hut 'ltttle change is required in the conso-