The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-24

of the word. Any change must look cd
at first. Consider. rather, whether the
change would bring a real gain, If the
public should accept it. Consider
whether the change is in the right di-
r~ection-the direction of simplicity.
economy, regularity, reason"
Some of the new spallings recon-
mended that viii strike the ordinary
reader as most revolutionary are the
following:
Omitting the h after c in words like
chameleon, chaos, character, chasln,
chorus, archaic, echo, etc. (rule y, and
to spell them cameleon, caos, caracter,
casm, corus, arcaic, eco, etc.
Dropping the final silent &c after a
single c%onsonant preceded by a short
vowel, strest, 'or by any strcst vowel
| whose sound is not conventionallv as
ISOLATED with the silent final e" uule
80. This gives such forms as: Bad,
hay, Civ, liv, forgiv, misgiv, ar, gon,
Wer, etc.
Changinging final lew, pronounced
as long Il, after ], r, or oh, to II (rule
81; ana dropping the final e in words
ending in -ue, pronounced like long Ii,
after ! and r (rule 30. The applica-
ton Of these rules gives rise to forms
like blu Cfor Blew, clu, flu, stu, bru,
cru, dru, CRU, thru (for threw, chu;
and blu Qor bIue), glu, ru, trll, accru,
imbru, etc.
Rules 16 and 20, referring to final
-oe and LOW, pronounced like o, pro-
duce similar changes with respect to
such words; such as do, flo, 70, no, TO
(for roe and row, wo; and bio, DO,
Gro, glo. sno, belo, bello, mello, pillo,
willo, etc.
Oh pronounced 6 is changed to f, by
rule s, in words ending in laugh.
Taught and -ough; and sue forms re-
suit as draft, laf, LATTER, cot. enuf, ruff
and tut. And silent gh is dropt from
augh and from ough pronounced like
out (rule 81. Hence We have aut. caut,
dauter, hauty, slauter, taut and the
like; and drout (for drought.
Words beginning with gn- (rule 10Y
and KIN (rule 12) pronounced n, drop
the initial g and k, giving nash, nat,
now, nome, etc, and mack, nave, mead,
! ne, nife. nit, mob, nock etc. For the
present the k is retained in kno (knoW)
and knoledge (knoWledge).
Phi pronounced { is changed to f in
all cases Grule 30, and affects a null
titude of words, many in common use,
like telefone, fonograf, telegraf, etc.
Then, by a general rule 900 and
several special rules, there is a whole
sale dropping of the final letter in
words ending in double ~consonants
BIB, Id, IF, -gg, IL, mn, -rr, SIS, 1T
ana m, resulting in spellings like eb,
ad, Cd, cuf, eg, wei, will, er, glas, mis-,
net, buz.
The silent wv is dropped from words
beginning with VIZ Cule 2S), produce
ing the forms rap, reak, reath, rench,
ratched, riggle, rist, rite, ritter, rong,
etc.
Another conspicuous change is in
dropping the 0 in termination o
Tule l9). Hence we see enorm1ls, IA
mus, glorius. ridiculus, etc, The circu-
lar gives a long list of them.
Final some, too, becomes Il in
words like fulsome, gladstone, hand
some and the like, which simple spell
ers will now write fulsum, gladsum,
handsum.
Other silent letters are dropped in
special cases land the preterits ending
in need and -rsed, pronounced re-
| spectiNely INST and rst are so recom-
mended to be spelled, as in danst, con-
vinst. forst, pierst, evidenst, etc.