The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-03-24

Aud III iorEif yure Iiyland cheef-
NV dsuter o my dauter!
As he sat moodily drinking whisky
| an cd fish with cameleon colored cuffs
trolled this ditty in an uptown hotel
yesterday afternoon. He had Just
eaten haddoc and a eg, and II may
be these that made the song ring out
! so harty thru the gloom. But as
the narled servitor. hauty to all save
| those who kno him we'll came In
with his cockny accent and hts reu-
ma tism he darted a qwik LUX at the
singer for fear he had forgotten to
leave the &C. out Of the whisky and
that the troller might be stued.
But no. everything seemed to be- al
rite. BY the chimny sst the prominent
| atturny In his ruf lnsy woolsy
suit. looking quite tuf and cotiing dis
trauty every now and then. He did
not even dein 10 LUX MP as the serv
itor entered, but kept mutterin glumly
to himself:
Drop the final silent e after
| single consonant preceded by a short
| vowel strest. or by any strest vowel
| whose sound is not conveniently ssso-
ciated with the silent final G, rule g."
| He Iookt about him as he muttered
| on in a bilius sort OF way. and his
| eye fell upon the Cd fish. The at
| turny started askt for his bill and
, tiptowed acrost the room.
AS he leaned over the cd fish rolled a
| ri xaya him and aaid.
do Il no that the cognate words in
Iceland!c and German hav lost the
original w?"
Hiz voice rose to a bello as he askt
| this orful question.
The atturny jumpt up shooting his
cuffs and danst xsitedly about the
room.
81 aint seen II onest,'' he sed. sed
he "Tru as 1 stand heer."
wei then. If u don't no that, what
| Of the h in rinoceros?"
| THE II is silunt as in rubarb and TO
dodendron." answered the atturny, laf-
| hng hideus, like a jelus political bos
/ At this moment q bel rang and the
two went out, where 1t WAS already
threatening to sno and where a poor
street pus who had eaten a fysic melt
on hard pillo of stone. having =
loren pigs nuckle.
The above interesting information
was Rarnered yesterday by THE Suns
simplifed reporter who, with a copy
OF the fourth list Of sImplifed speilings
recommended by the Simpnfed Spell
Ing Board in his pocket. went out to
get what noos mite be lying around.
He had the comfortable feeling that
the spelling of his little article has the
approval of the advisory council Of the
Simplifed Spelling Board. There are
thirty rules in the new recommenda-
tions OF the board, some of which in
volve changes more noticeable than
any Of those 1t has hitherto put forth,
as the board itself admits. The cir
cular says:
THE First List tthe Three Hundred
Words) publsht in 1906. was not list
of newly simplified forms. hut q selection
Of simpler forms alredy in good use
namely in three hundred out of more than
three thousand words at that time COM
monty speld In two or more ways. II
| was, in the greater part. a selection OF
the spellings preferd and used by the three
principal American dictionaries and Rlredy
In majority use thruout the United States"
This was tho very first OF the simplt-
fed spelling that won so instant and
hearty approval among school children
Throughout the land
Then in 1908 came the second list,
which. as the board says. ''containd a
considerable number of simplified spell
lings that might be cald innovations"
Finding how popular simplified SPELL
ing had become, a more extensive list
was made and the three were put to-
gether in one 'alfabetic list and pub
lisht March i. 1909"
The circular says that these lists
have been used by many business firms
and corporations in thoir correspon-
dcncc. Even the limited acquaintance Of
a newspaper man with correspondence
of many business firms testifes to the
correctness Of the boards statement,
which was just rs correct long be-
fore 1906.
And now for our delectation comes
the fourth list. One is warned at the
outset not to be too much "inhuenst
by the cd appearance of the word. Any
. change might look Cd at first" One
should consider rather. urges the boarl, !,
whether the change Is for the uplift OF
humanity in general.
Remembering this, then, unored by
ennything cd. approach with triumfant
feet the first rool, in which the d Is
silent
/, The first rule takes two Of our old
consonant friends. and h, and croolly
tears them apart Thus c and II. that
for 40 many years have been turning
up regularly side by side in such words
| as chameleon chaos, character Chasm,