Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-08-24
A NEW WAY To
SPELL OLD WORDS
President Roosevelt Announces
He Has Adopted the Carne.
gle Reform Spelling.
INSTRUCTS PUBLIC PRINTER
To Put vi White House Official Docu.
ments, Including Messages, into
That Orthography

oyster Bay Aug. e4.-Pre.ident
Roosevelt has endorsed the Carnegie
spelling reform movement He is
sued orders today 10 public Printer
Sullings that hereafter an messagsend
documents emauating from the White
House shall be printed In accordance
with the recommendation Of the SPELL
.ng reform committee headed by
Brander Matthews. professor Of Eng
lish at Columbia university. This
committee has published list Of 300
words In which the spelling Is re.
formed. This contains such words as
thru" and tho" as the spelling for
through and though
The presidents official sanction OF
This reform movement is regarded as
The most effective and speediest meth
cd Of inaugurating the new system VI
spelling throughout the country. Not
only will the printed documents. eman-
atlng from the president utilize the
reform spelling but his correspondence
also will be spelled iu the new style
Secy Loeb has sent foi. the list OF 300
words which have been reformed and
upon it, arrival will Immediately order
all correspondence of the president
and Of the exc .utivo force of the White
House spelled in accordance herewith.
As the spelling reform committee shall
adopt new reforms those will be added [
t. the presidents list and also mat ul
the public printer
While the order to the printer today /
does not contemplate an immediate I
reform IN the spelling OF official docu- |
ments from the executive departments 1
in Washington b Is rgarded as more |
than likely that the respective heads |
81 the departments VIII fan In line
with the presidents ideas and have |
their official documents printed IN the |
new spelling.
THE SIMPLIFlED WORDS
New York. Aug 24.-On June IS last
the simplihed spelling board made pub |
lic "a list % 600 simplified spellings |
which had been decided upon by the |
board The list is as follows
Abridgment. accouter accurst, ac- ,
altho. auapest. anemia. auesthesia. an /
esthetiC antipyrin. autltoXin. apothem.
sppriZe. arbOr. archaeology ardor. ar /
NOR. artezian. assize. ak
Bans not "banns bark not barquc I
behavior. blest. blusht brazen, briar /
bun. bur.
Csliber, calips. candor. Chapt. check, I
checker. chimera. clvilize, clamor, clan
gor. clapt. claspt clipt. clue. coeval,
color. Golfer c0mmiXt. CompreSt. COM
prize. contest. controller, coquet, crit
cizo. Cropt crost. crusht. cue. cursl, |
'utlas. cyclopedia. carest mot cafress- 3
I'D. catalog catechse center.
Dactyl dasht decalog. defense, dem
igoe. demeanor. deposit, deprest. de-
'elop. ditresis, dixie, dipt DISGUST, dis
iat,h distN. distrest. dolOr domiCil !
iraft, dram. drest drlpt, droopL dropt,
luluess.
Ecumcal. edile egls, enamor. en-
yclopedis endedyor enyelop. colau, /
on. epaulet cponym, era, esophagus,
sthetlc. esthesics. estivate. ether eti-
logy, exercise. eXprest.
Fagot. tantasm. fantasy. fantom Ia
or fayorite. fervor, fiber. hNt, flavor.
ulil. fulness.
Gage, gael, gelatin, Slid mot gilt.
ypsy, gloze. glycerin, goodby, gram,
ript
Harbor. harken. heapt. hematin hic-
W hook mot houghl. homeopathy.
omonym honor humor husht, hypo.
enuse
Idollz.. lmprest, instil
Jail judgment.
Kist
Labor. lacrmsL lapt. lasht lesp,. le-
alize. license. licorice liter. Judgment, |
,okt. loopi lustcr.
Mamma msneuvcr. lnsterialize mea-
or. medieval meter mist mot missed. |
utter. mkt. mold. molder mnlding.
loldy, mott mullen.
NaturaliEe. ncighh0r. inter. nipt.
Ochcr. odor. 0ffeuse omelet. opprcsst.
Photography palcothic. palcontology.
aleozoic. parafiin. palor pariizau, past
not passed., patronize, pedsgog pedo-
aptist. PhenlX. phenomenon pigmy
low. polyp, possessL practise. prodNi.
renomon. prest pretensc pretcrit. pre-
ermit, primeval, protest, program. pro-
y. pfopt pur
Quartet. questor. quintet.
Rancor. rapt mot raped razo. rec
rnize, reconnoiter. rigor rime ript. ru-
lor.
Saher. saltpeter savior SAVIOR. SCENT
r. septet sepulchur. seXtet. silvan.
mitar. sipt. sithc skilful. skipt. shpt.
molder snapt somher spoctcr splen-
or stedtast slept stopt strcst. stript, y
lbpcna, succor. sufiiNt. sulfatc. sulfur. ! 81