The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-24
BIOLOGISTS OFFER RE-SPH[|.Dl|' WORDS
Which AR Cd But BETTER, THEY SAY
Fourth Catalog Of A1terd Spellings to Be Publisht Today
They Cause Latter and MASKING of Teeth at First, But
Friends Say They Will Clear Up the Arcaic Caos Of
Our Language. Haz

New York, March 23.-The simpli-
fled spelling board viii issue tomorrow
a fourth list of simplified spellings."
1t is contained in a 16-page pamphlet,
The new recommendations Of the board
are comprised in 80 rules, some of
which involve changes more noticeable
thar any of those it has hitherto put
forth.
All of the rules 50 far recommended
are applied in the present circular, and
the four-page introduction exhibits
such striking examples as folding,
publisht, alredy, speld, pr ferd, turnout,
cald, Wer, practis, extensiV, hay, ortho-
cratic, wei, definit, determind, Cd, cata-
log, serius, fysicians, dout, themselvs,
givs, previus, varius, disrafs, anonla
Ius alterd, Characteristic, f~ilologic, ful,
elias, enterd, anser, friend, mortgage,
yoman, obViusly. ~paragrafs.
One reason that the changed SPELL
ings are so much in evidence on the
printed page is that 50 many Of the
simplifications now recommended at
feet words in more common use than
those in the three former lists.
The first list" (the three hundred
words published in 1860, indeed, as
the circular points out, was not q list
of newly simplified words at all, but a
selection of simpler forms for more
than 5000 words already in good use.
being, in the greater part, those pre-
ferred by the three principal Ameri-
can dictionaries.
The Second list published two
years later, contained some forms that
We're unfamiliar to readers Of only
modern literature, but hat We're for
the most part RESERVATIONS of simplifi-
cations formerly in high literary use.
A year later 1909) the third list" APP
peared, containing only four general
rules. The TIRES lists were then put
together in one "alfabetic list also
issued in 1909.
Since that time, the circular states,
the board has been engaged in the
preparation of a provisional "vocabu-
larry of silnplifications" intended ito
include all the ordinary words of the
English language that admit any sim
p%lification of spelling, according to the
existing rules and analogies, and with
out increasing the present alfabet."
This vocabulary" is ready to be pub
lished J" 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 irregu-
~Iarities and thus clear the ground for
the work that remains to be done"
an publishing this fourth list" the
c%ircula goes on to a the simpli-
fled spelling board and its advisory
council and the many thousand pro-
f%essors, teachers, superintendent,
clergylnen, lawyers, ~fysicians and
other supporters for whom they speak,
declare their desire to bring about an
Improvement in English spelling, in
this way, in these words, here and
now. Is II = And allowing for the
necessary, and indeed desirable, pro-
portion of criticism and dout which al
ways accompanies new proposals, we
may say thai this great body of edu-
Gated men and omen, no matter in
what degree they use the simplified
spelling themselvs, vii hereafter ad-
wise teachers to teach and children to
use these, new spellings."
The reader is urged, in considering
these new spellings, not to be "too
much %influenst by the cd appearance