The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-12-01
The KpriIins Keform--A Probable Move
Ia West SlFEtuiR.

WHEELING. v. VA, DECEMBER lss2.
The SpcIIins K-forn,--A Probable Move
Ia West Virginia.
We are glad 10 know by letter received
from presiden. Morris, Of the West
Virginia Press Association, that he will
bring the matter Of spelling reform before
the next meeting OF the association, and
ask for the appointment Of a committee to
report at subsequent meeting In regard 10
what words. shall be reformed In their
spelling by the newspapers Of this State,
Nnd by common agreement adoptedin each
one Of the newspaper officers OF the asso-
citation. When the list Is agreed upon
they will be printed and list furnished to
each paper, to he hung up in their editorial
and composing rooms, and all matter set
up in said offices will be spelled in con.
formity with this revision. .u
This Is real progress, and is one Of Tie
most important services that the associa-
ton can render to the people Of West
Virginia. II will be the pioneer move
ment IN inns STATE OF the great reform that
has been inaugurated elsewhere, and that
Ii now engaging the attention anu enllstins
the Interest anu elortS OF advanced minus
in this country and in Europe.
AZ coon rs II IS adopted by the newspa'
perS oil the stale, the next proper step VIII
De Tor the legislature to order oil pubic
documents, including the ACTS, TO nc
printed in the reformed speIlins' anu THIS
viii operate Oh powerful Involvement TO
the makers OF text BOOKS Tor our common
schools to adopt II, anu SO in this way the
reform VIII come INTO general use through
oat the slate py all the people: Ii the re-
form IS adopted anu Vigorously pushed by
fthc newspapers II VIII Dc me common
spelling throughout the State ia les than
twenty years, anu mus by an easy method,
ny 1t were, the youth OF West Virginia will
nave great dit'icuity IN the shape OF bar
ba'ous and unmeanlng and unwarranted
speIl!hg cleared from their pathway, to
scholarship.
ih'hemean''ne' pendingth'sorder ofthe
West virginia Press Association, the Is
TELilGEScEh VIII continuous heretofore. to
publish articles original and selected,
bearing upon this reform, 80 that all per-
sons may see and understand the simplicity
and desirability Of it, and be all the better
prepared to adopt it at the proper time.
AS showing what even one newspaper
can do in this direction we may mention
the fact that the Springfield RepuJl;cun. goli.
tary and alone adopted the word"propramn
for "n,oy,ammnn and V,t r.foru h..
' '0A ~, 4tA'
Nv" ''een ia'seiy aoop'eu ny writer's OF thc
press. And yet this il only one reform
among Il hundred others that might as
nronorlv he ,do,,od Savor,, o.ho, y. ,o.,
f' ~, 'e'a. o."e' PApe'H'
eo'sp'cuolsly the chicaso 1rsoune, Utica,
(N. W Herald, and Home Journal, OF New
York city, have gone much further, and
revised such words as infinite d;lerm,,
, $50 a''" vs. 40 '''''n'''' ',ien'i'i'
oemasosue' phlloiosy, photography, tri-
umph, thoroughly, though, knowl.
edge, and phthisick: maxine them reenoct.
;velv N ro,d ..;nGn;t n",l;,a'n., ,,"'aS.; !,
.,o,, "''"'' "'ie'ii" uelhasoe'
hloiosy, lonograly," "triumt," thoro.
ly," "tho," "noley," and "tisic."
The latest article on the subject Of this
spelling reform has been coh,ribu,ed n
,ta ,o,,o, ~ ,to t,ooo,,ho. ..,..,i.S, :,
=, n'"s' "u'''oe' VI 'Ae
'eh"fy .hay'z"e ny Professor l.ounsbury,
OF Yale College. We condensc un outline
OF his article from the pen nj one of o,r
co,omnor,r;.a 90 fo,lowa. " o''
~ 'T'"',
!, Professor =. H. Lotnsbury, Of Yale Col
itSe, IN inc december number OF the Ceh-
t"y, taKes up Inc Problem Of Spelling
reform" from scholarly and conservative
position, ana gives more sensible discus
SION is OF l.e subject ilian We have been
favored WIN ~ any Other recent writer.
nc ~ hinseil bellevcr in the need OF
something IKE u radical change in orthog.
iaphy, nut nc recognizes the broad fact
that 10 great majority OF intelligent read
cts ana writer's snch change would at any
.llns DC ulsulsleliil: Assuming that most
people arc agreed that some modification
o. ihe present system Is desirable, he d.
viacs me reior'ncrs into two classes, one Of
"1llch iasors reform ~ English orthoyn.
phy, anu the othcr OF which favors reform
y Ens!ish photography.
Kelorm n English photography" he
says, docs not imply any sweeping change
Whatever. me spelling IL to DO left essen.
tMiiy what 1t Is now. A number OF sim.
pilticatlons only are to be adopted. One
OF ne most important OF these would mt
urally be the dropping OF useless letters in
,hose cases where the useless letter is mis-
leading ny TO the derivation, us, for instance,
the y IN rhymc the q III scene, and the 0 In
!of!gl ma sor&relpi; Another would be
inc REDUCTION 10 uniformity OF en1inr ri |