The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-12-12

guess, yuta, yutI, yuW.
-. UE. Drop final ye in apologize, eata-
ly,iglt, etc; dcmayogue, pedagoyue, etc;
league, colleague, etc. Drop in argue agae.
40. J. Spell rhyme rinle. sa.
~. Double consonants may be simp.
lifted. Final B, d, y, mr., d, j, |, :, Us cob,
add, rqg, i'm, pt'rr, bait, JaliV, dull, bus, mot
ait, h6Gj. Medal before another co nson.
mt, as battle, ripple, uritlen (prtn). Initial
unaccepted pretixes and unaccounted syll.
ables. MS in attrertale, accuse, atair, ETC.;
cnrrstinh trareller, etc. -fEg
"lo. drop silent b in bomb, crnmb, doubt,
damb, limb, lamb, plumb, succ,m'b, thumb.
"l3. c. Change back to sin cinder, fierce,
hruce, once, peacr, scarce, mice, thence, source,
iirrce, phcnce.
II. en-. Drop the h Of ch in eAumomike,
choitr, cholera, melancholy, school, stomaGh.
Change to L in ache (akel anchor (anker).
"l5. D. Change and ed final to when
40 pronounced as in crossed, (crostt, looked.
(ioolt), unless the affects the preceding
sound, at in chafed, chanced.
''lG. G. Drop Q in .teign, foreign, sovereign.
az. GIL. Drop in against, t,'rgh, ghoa,
Drop Oh in naughty, though, (ho), through
thru. Change Oh to where it has thu,
soundas in enough, laughter, Tough, cough, etc.
as, i. Drop in could.
"l9. 7. Drop p in receipt.
$50. y. Drop in isle, dtmeaie, island.
Change 8 to in dtstinc7itv, words, as in
abuse verb, house, verb, rise verb.
"2l. SC. Drop in Ge,1i, scythe
''22 TCM. Drop { in catch, pitch, letch.
''2:'' ". Drop 10 in 1rholt.
"24. PH. Write ! for phi in philosophy
sphere"
AT the recent meeting OF the American
Social Science Association at Saratoga. the
Rev. H. L. Wayland, D. D. editor OF the
National bamtiA, OF Philadelphia, read
paper on the spelling reform movement,
which has since been printed in pamph.
let for private circulation. We need not
60 into his statements ind illustrations OF
the present anomalous condition of our
spelling further than to say not only are
there five different sounds of a,
but one OF these, the long sound, has
such varieties fspelling as fate, fall, ieign,
and eight; and that the long sound
Of is expressed in different ways in :esis,
query, plea, feet, unique. people, pbnnix,
key, leisure, belief and complete. On this
point he quotes from Mr.. Meiklejohn, late
Assistant Commissioner OF the endowed
School Commission for Scotland, as fol-
lows: 'There are IS distinct sounds in
our spoken lauguage; and there are about
400 symbols lsimple and compound) to
represent these IS sounds; in other words,
there are 400 servants 10 do the work OF IS.
VI the ~ letters, Is have acquired the hab.
it Of hiding themselves; they are written
and printed, but the ear has no account OF
them. Fourteen yowel.sounds have 100
printed symbols" -'r
On the evils OF the present system DR.. W,
says that it robs the children Of some Of
their best years." and is an annoyance
through life; and he quotes from the Rev.
J. Angus, D. d., who says: "rhis plague
OF spelling is q plague that meets US alp;
and from Mr.. Gladstone, who says; ~ often
think that il was foreigner aud had to
set about learning English I should 20
mad"
In the remedies which Dr.. W. proposes
he does not aim at introducing an ideal a.
phabet, which he thinks is,at stimprac-
1icable; and he does propose to introduce
any new symbols, US he thinks there is
no sound which cannot with sufficient ex.
actness be represented by the existing SYM
bols." He would "drop all silent letters
that are doubted like many OF the final con.
sonants." and he thinks that one symbol
may be secured for each sound and one
sound for each symbol, in the following
way: =. 81 is.a-=-=a I'D ~
II, short, as in fat. a, long, as in fate.
Il, rs IN luther. e, short, as in fed.
e, long, as in feet. g,always hard as in 90.
i, short rs in 1t. i, long, as in kite.
0, short, az III hot. o, long, as IN hole.
., always as in sing. u, short, rs in run.
II, long, aa in ruin. w,alwaysa consonant, |
y,alwavsa consonaut. tn, Us in thin. EM|
oh, rs til in thine. sh, US in vanish.
Zh, as vision (vizhon). ch, as in choice.
III, as in chair. al, as in maui.
OF. as in oil. on, as in ground.
c, q and X are dropped; the other letters,
not named above, have their present sound,
but ire never silent. H#I}'|
In answer to common objections 10 such !
changes DR.. W. says that such etymologists
us Max Muller, Whitney, March, Halde.
man and Child are in favor OF the change.
tliut changes have been going on for cen.
turtles, so that what was once Jysshe is now
jiat, and that words now pronounced alike,
but now spelt differently, would be dis.
tinguisled by the connection in the same
way us when we hear them spoken. lie |
says that educated men should lead In this
reform rs ''uncducated men are afruid to |
spell in sensible way, lest it would be |
said TINT they don't know any better" He
says "if educated men set the example of
dropping the silent letters, and Of correct
ing the most monstrous anomalies, then
plain people will follow" He thinks also
that ''the influence OF the newspapers will
be Immense in accustoming the eyes Of
ing OF the strangeness,h and he speaks Of
the Home Journal, the Chicago Tribune,
aud the Utica Herald as being valuable
pioneers in this work.
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