The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-20

The pore old langW5dse has been
swatted again by the s5mpliaed spelling
bord. After giving is hiosrafy ard
patting itself metaforicallN on The back
the bord that i has the
honor to present for tho consideration
of men of letters. men Of affairs. man
of science. biologists. educators, etc,
seventy-flye more words thar henitSd
folks like Tennyson. Thackeray, Dick
ems and other writer's on somewhat init
mate terms with the l~angwidge. had q
vague impression they knew how 10
spell with one hand tied behind their
backs. This seventy-five is to be added
to the 800 originally recommended ny
the bord on March q, 1906. when the
bord made its first assault on the inof-
Tending tung of its ancestors. As the
bord remarks in its own style; The
persons interested were askt to eXanl-
ine the list" and 10000 signed cards
indorsing it.
NThe list OF seVenty-hve was submit
ted to the Limerick reporter. and he
consented to send a few of them
through his automatic, inspirational
slot machine:
Said an outraged young woman named
a. ~
For the Spelling Bord's horrid new
the'ry
l don't car a dam
l shall spell my sweet Ian
As / used to, ard not the contrary!
A man from far-off W~achapreag
Attempted to swim twenty leag.
But his limbs got so mum
He was put on the bum,
And he murmured, II feel this fateag.'
A scribbler whose writing vas solem
Attempted to write a hole colum,
His queer autograf
Made the editor laf.
And the sentiments-how he did maui
EN-.
A poet, somewhat of a Tyre,
To the hand of n maid did aspire;
lie loved her in dreams
And about her wrote reams
Because she belonged to the quire,
The last inspiration was suggested
by the bord's new version of the old
fashioned choir that the village black
smiths daughter sang in. They do not
say how they are going to spell the
other quirc.
Here is a list of the words as the
bord thinks they ought to be spelled
and how they arc spelled:
AXE. ache: aile. aisle; agast, aghast;
alfabet, alphabet; autograf, autograph;
autum, autumn; bedsted, bedsteadj
~bibliografy, photography; biografy,
biography; boro. borough; bid, build;
hilding. building; campain. campaign;
cantor, camphor; quire, choir; cifer,
cipher; COCO, cocoa; colleag. colleague;
colum, column; condit, conduit; coun-
terft, counterfeit; curteous. courteous;
curtesy, courtesy: crum, cfumb; Diet,
debt, dettor. debtor; diafram, dia-
phragm; dout, doubt: DUN, dumb; eg,
egg; excede, exceed; loren, foreign;
forht. forfeit; furlo, furlough; gastly,
CHASTITY; COST. ghost; gard, guard; gar
dian, guardian; harang, harangue;
hight. height; INDEBTED, indebted; Hand,
island; lie, isle; lam, lamb; lcag,
League; lin, limb; mum, numb; pamflet,
pamphlet; paragraf, paragraph; fonetic,
phonetic; %fonograf, monograph; foto-
graf, photograph; tisic. phthisic; tisis,
phthisis; procede. proceed; redout, re-
doubt; redoutable, r~edoubtable; re
douted, redoubted: sent, scent; sion,
scion; %sissors, scissors; sithe, scythe;
siv. sieve; slight, sleight; solem,
solemn; soveren, sovereign; succedei
succeed; surfit, surfeit; telegraf, tele-
graph; telefone, telephone; thum,
thumb; tung, tongue; wier, weir; wierdi
weird; yoman, yoeman.-New York
Sun.