The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-25
MORE SiMPLIFIED SPELLlNGS
Board Issues Fourth List-Thirty New
Rules Make Striking Changes
in Many Words.

New York. March 25.-The .simpli-
feel Spelling Board has issued a
Fourth List of Sinplifed Spellings.''
The new recommendations of the
Board are comprised in 80 Rules,
some of which involve changes more
noticeable than any of those it has
hitherto put forth 3
All the rules so far reeomn ended
are applied in the present circular, and
the 4-page introduction exhibits such
striking examples as folloing, publisht,
a1redy, speld. preferd, thruout, cald,
wer. pr@tis, extensiv. 11S-E, orthograf-
ic, wei, spred alta bet fornd shall, ar,
viii executiv, definit. determipd, cd,
catalog. serius, fysicians, dout, them
seIvs, givs. previus, varius digrafs,
anomaIus, alterd, cara cteristic, filologic
full clas, enterd, answer, friend, NOR
gage, yoman,- obviuslys paragrafs.
One reason that the changed SPELL
ings are so much in evidence on the
printed page is that many of the
sim plff1c ca lions now recommended at
feet words in more common use than
those in the three former lists.
The First List (the Three Hun
dred Words" published in 1900, in
deed. as the circular points out, was
not list of newly simpltf1ed words at
all, but selection of simpler forms
from more than 5000 words already
in good use, being, in the greater part
those preferred by the three principal
American dictionaries
The Second List" published two
years later, contained some forms
that were unfamilior to readers of on
ly modern literature, but-that were for
the most part restorations of simp1i-
fcations formerly in high literary use.
a year later ,(19O9). the Third List
appeared, containing only four. general
rules. The three lists were then put
together in one 'tAlfabetie- List" also
issued in 1909
Since that time, the circular states,
the Board has been engaged in the
preparation of a provisional ''Vocab-
ulary of Simplifoations'' intended ''to
include all the ordinary words of the
English language that admit any sim
pIification of spelling, according to the
existing rules and analogies, and with
out increasing the present alfabet.'
This ''Voca bulary' is ready to be pub
Iished when it shall appear that the
supporters of the general cause ar
redy to accept it, The Fourth List
is put forth to remove many minor
Irregularities and thus clear the
ground for the work that remains to
be done"
I'm publishing this Fourth List the
circular goes on to say, 1.-The Sinpli-
fed Spelling Board and its Advisory
Council and the many thousand pro-
fessors, teachers, superintendent, law
yers, fysfcians and other. supporters
desire to bring about an improvement
in English spelling, in this way, in
these words, here and now. :.
And allowing for the necessary, and
indeed desira BILE, proportion of crit
icism and dout which always accom-
panies new proposals, we may say that
this great body of educated men and
women, no matter in what degree they
use the simplifed spelings thennselvs,
will hereafter advise teachers to teach
and children to use these new spell
ings."
The reader is urged, in considering
these new speIlings, not to be too
much inhuenst by the cd appearance
Of the word. Any change must look
Cd at first. Consider, rather, wheth-
er the change would bring a real gain,
If the public should accept it. Con-
slider whether the change is in the
right Objectionable direction of sim
plicity, economy, regularity, reason"
Some of the new spellings recon-
mended that will strike the ordinary
reader as most revolutionary are
the followings
Omitting the h after in words like
chameleon, chaos, character, chasm,
chorus. archaic, echo, etc. (Rule -,
AND to spell them cameleOn, caos, car
Ecter. casrn, corus. arcaic, eco etc
Dropping the final silent after
a single consonant preceded by short
vowel, strest, ''or by any strest vowel
whose sound is not conventional1y as
ISOLATED with silent final eH (Rule 81,
This gives such forms as: bad, hav,
Civ, Hv, forgiv. misgiv, ar, gon wer,
etc.
Changing final lew, pronounced as
long rI.safter /. r, or ch, to (Rule
s)EAsnd dropping the final -e in words
ending in -ue, pronounced like long
L. after / and (Rule 27). The appli-
.-Aion of these rules gives rise to