The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-08-25
ADOPTS NEW SPELLING
President Roosevelt Orders the
Public Printer to Follow
Carnegie Rules.
THROUGH" TO BE "THRU."
Other Changes Less Radical = Many
Have Already Been Recognized by
Dictionaries - President Said to Be
Working to Make English Universal
Language.

Language.
Oyster Bay, N. Y, Aug. 25.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt has indorsed the Car
negie spelling reform movement. He
has issued orders to Public Printer
Stillings that hereafter all messages
from the president and dll other docu-
ments emanating from the White
House shall be printed In accordance
with the recommendation of the spell
ing reform committee headed by Bran
der Matthews, professor of English in
Columbia university
The presidents official sanction OF
this reform movement is regarded as
the most effective and speediest meth
cd Of inaugurating the new system of
spelling throughout the country. Not
only will the printed documents ema-
mating from the president utilize the re-
form spelling but all White House cor
respondence will be spelled in the new
style. As the spelling reform COM
mittee shall adopt new reforms they
will be added to the presidents list and
also to that of the public printer.
While the order to the public printer
does not contemplate an immediate re-
form in the spelling Of official docu-
ments from the executive departments
in Washington, it is regarded as more
than likely that the respective heads of
the departments will fall in line with
the presidents ideas and have their
official documents printed in the new
spelling.
1t is said that the president believes
that the English language is to be the
language of all the world and that the
simpler 1t is made the sooner the day
will come when everybody will speak
English.
Changes Not Radical.
The changes recommended by the
Carnegie board are nominal In most
cases, as the new spelling has already
been adopted by the best modern die
tionaries. For instance, the ''u" is drop
ped in such words as honor and parlor,
but this is not really new. Only in
Great Britain is honor spelled honour
or parlor parlour.
Nouns ending in IRE" are made to
end in "er," as theater, not theatre;
center, not centre But here the change
has already been recognized by Web,
ster's unabridged.
Wagon is another word in the Car
negie list, but it's now so spelled by
almost all Americans. Wagon is a
British spelling. Dropping the final
"e'' in ak is hardly an innovation.
More radical is the changing of
words ending in "ough' to an ''o'' or
"u'' termination, as thru, tho, thoro,
thorofare, thoroly, thruout.
In verbs ending in the past tense in
"ed' preceded by doubled consonant
the termination is changed to st." as
blest for blessed, carest for caressed.
The final ''ue" in catalogue is drop
ped, also the final "me" in programme.
Judgment is so spelled, not judgement.
Acknowledgement also drops an "e."
! All these alleged new spellings are rec
ognized by most dictionaries.
The Official List.
The full list of sjmplified spellings as
decided on by the board is as follows:
Abridgment accouter. accurst. ac-
acknowledgement, addrest. adj, afhxt, altho.
anapest, anemia, anesthesia, anesthetfc,
antipyrin, antitoxin, apothem, apprize,
arbor. archaeology, ardor. armor artizan,
assize, AK.
Bans (not banns), bark (not barque) be-
havior, blest. blusht. brazen, brazier,
bun, bur.
Caliber, caiiper,> candor, chapt, check,
checker. chimera civilize. clamor. clang-
t or, claspt, clapt, clipt, clue, coeval, color,
Golfer, commixt, compreSt, comprize, con-
fest, controller, coquet, criticize, cropt
crost, erusht, cue, curst, cutlas, cyelope-,
dia, carest mot caressed). catalog. cate
chize center.
Dactyl, dasht, decalog, defense, dema-
gog, demeanor. deposit, deprest. develop,
dieresis, dixie, dipt, DISGUST, dispatch, dis
ill., distrest, dolor, domicil, draft, dram,
drest, dript, droopt dropt dulness.
Ecumenical, edile, egis enamor. ency-
clopedia, endeavor, envelop, Eolian. con,
epaulet eponym, era. -esophagus, esthetic,
esthetics, estivate. ether, etiology, exor
ciZe, exprest.
Fagot. fantasm, fantasy, fantom, favor
favorite. fervor. fiber, fixt. flavor, fulfill
fulness.
Gage, gael. gelatin, gild (not guild)
gypsy. gloze. glycerin. good-by gram
gript.
Harbor, harken. heapt. hematin. hiccup
| hook mot hough), homeopathy, homo
nym, honor. humor. husht. hypotenuse.
Idolize, imprest, instil.
Jail, judgment.
Kist
Labor, lacrimal, lapt. lasht, leapt, le-
| galize, license, licorice, liter. Judgment
lookt lopt, lusyer.
Mama, maneuver, materialize, meager
medieval meter, mist (not mssed) inter-
MKT, mold, molder, molding, moldy,
molt. mullen
Naturalize neighbor. inter, nipt.
Ocher, odor, offense omelet opprest
| orthopedic.
Photography, paleolithic, paleontology
paleozoic, paraffin, parlor. partizan, past
| mot passed., patronize, pedagog. pedobap-
tist. phenix, phenomenon, pigmy, plow.
| polyp. possest, practise, prehxt, preno-
/ men, prest, pretense, preterit pretermit
primeval, protest, program, prolog, propt
| pur.
Quartet questor. quintet.
Rancor, rapt (not rapped), raze, recog-'
I! nize, reconnoiter, risor, rime, ript, ru-
NOR.
| Saber, saltpeter savior, SAVIOR, scepter,
septet, sepulcher, sextet, slvan, simitar,
| sipt, sithe, ski!ful. skipt. slipt, smolder.
| snapt somber. specter, splendor sted-
| fast, stept stopt strest, stript. subpoena
succor, suff1xt, sL-1ate. sulflr, sumac
| supprest, surprize. synonym.
Tabor, xapt teazel, tenor. theater. tho
thoro. thorofare, thoroiy, thru, thruout
1 tipt. topt. tost, transgrest. trapt tript
/ tumor
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