Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-02-05
SPELL "SCHEDULE."
Many Ways in Which Independent Spoilers
Present the Word.

Many Ways In Which Independent Spoilers
Present the Word.
AT the last meeting of the Six O'clock
Club, Major John McElroy, of the Ma
tional Tribune, speaking to the ques-
ton, What shall we abolish next?''
proposed the abolition of our present
method Tor lack Of method) of spelling.
He favored phonetic system-one, as
he put it, under which words will spell
themselves. Mr.. Theodore L. DeLand,
of the Treasury Department, proposed,
on the other hand, the abolition of
spelling reformers, holding that in this
glorious land of the free and home of
the brave every body should be and now
is permitted to spell according to the
dictates of his own conscience, or words
to that effect. We are ALWAYS glad to
furnish disputants with good weapons.
1t therefore gives pleasure to us to be
able to lay before these gentlemen and
their respective allies communication
which we are amply assured contains no
+ jot of exaggerat ton:
Mr.. EDIToR--From the correspond
ence with the Post-Office Department
the following misspellings of the word
schedule" have been collected princi-
pally by Mr.. G. "a. La Fotra, late of the
Post-Otfice Department..
There are honest attempts to spell the
word by postm asters, contractors, mail
carriers, members of Congress and others
in the Government service. Some evil
IDENTIFY arise from failure to pronounce
the word correctly and then an effort to
spell the REORGANIZATION. The posi-
b1lities of misspelling this word are by
no means exhausted in this list, but
these given indicate clearly that some
reform is needed, either in our system
of education or in our system of SPELL
ing. The matter is respectfully referred
to the honorable Civil-Service Commits
sion.
Ceagule, cedual, cgul, cegule, cedule,
chedeule, chedel, chedgule, chedual,
chedule, chegeule, chegule, chudgel,
chugel, cledule, keggel, scaaguel, sea-
guel, scattull, scatul, sceadiael, scead-
ule, scedaule, scedgel, scedguele, seed
gle, .scedual, scedgule, scediule, scedole,
scedual, sceduall, scedue. scedul, seed
uel, sceduell, scedule, scedull, scegel,
sceguel, scegule, scetchel, sceudgel,
sceudule, scgull, sequel, schadule,
schedule, schedule, schedel, sched-
gele, schedguele, schedguel schedgule,
schedil, schedule, schedule, sched-
oolle, schedual, schedule, sceduel,
scaedu1, schedulee, schedull, schedule,
schezal, schezcial, schezel, schezouel,
schedule, scheoul, schedule, scheowle,
scheudel, schedule, schzule, schicle,
schigule, schidual, schidull, SCHEDULE,
schied, schicl, schuadal, schudle,
schudule, schudgal, schudgle, schudle,
schugdale, schuluge, schulz, schulz
dule, sclduel, Scidule. schedule,
scigel, schedule, scual, scudle,
scudale, scugel, scugle, sculue,
sccodule, sedual, scduel, sedgule, scdul,
scdule, scedgule, sccdule, scegel, scgule,
shadule, shedgel, shedul, shedule, She
gal, shegel, sheguel, shegule, shilture,
skaddle, skeddule, skeddle, skedgel,
sl1edgoel, skedgeoul, skedgeul, sked-
geule, skedgeuele, skeGge, skedguel,
skedgul sledgule, skedial, skeiule,
skedrule, skeduel, skedul, skedule,
skedyowal, slzeetule, skegal, skegel,
skegl, skedge, skeguel, skegule, skeiule,
sketchel, sketuel, sketule skeudgle,
skudgel, skudgl, squedgel, sudule.
Certainly this curious list sustains Mr..
De Land in his assertion that every
body spells as he pleases in this great
and growing Republic, and, on the other
hand, it must crafty Major McElroy to
find such testimony Of the need of sys-
tenn in which every word will be its own
orthographist.- Washington Post.