Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-21

letter. both vowel and consonant into
as many specifically different forms
ms such generic letter now predomi-
uantly represents different sounds.
by appropriately assigning the letters
to the sounds. By resortne TO dual
and limited representations and hy
retaining the present spelling hy way
of exceptions Of few refractory. oft
recurring familiar words. and Of in-
Elections. prefXes. suffiyes. and other
visual idioms. he evolved out of ans
adapted 20 the situation a provisional
simpHficatiOn that retains siXty-fouI
our of roo Of said 5000 words un-
changed in spelling The rendering In
this system looks like English and is
fairly readable az sight
til Mr. Lmthy's universal alphabet
contains letter for each of the forty
three different speech sounds i'm the
human voice. its script letters are
movementally correct and are Of Bo-
man script style. and except that
economy compels the superseding Of
the nine diagraphs which now repre-
sent the mixed consonants ch, ng. sh,
etc. with logically devised letters. il
preserves the present spelling to the
greatest degree practicable, by the
following means, viz: First, it modi-
files each generic letter, both vowel and
consonant, into as many specifically
different forms as such generic letter
now predominantly represents differ
ent sounds: second It takes advan-
tage of non-conflictng dual and of
limited representation of the sounds
third. as the compounds i, a. and
sounds are now represented in the
English alphabet, these four COM
pounds retain such representation i'm
the universal alphahet-thus giving il
forty-seven letters. and fourth, it SO
assigns the letters to the sounds as to
preserve the present spelling as far
as possible
by these means Mr. Luthy has
evolved out of and adapted to the sit
uation a universal alphabet Cor sys-
tenn that is complete, accurate and
phonetic The rendering, or text. of
this alphabet retains thirty-six out of
100 of said 5000 words unchanged i'm
spelling so per cent more than did
either Of the three systems mentioned;
It takes about rs per cent less
space Oess letters than our present
spelling; and ii has an English APP
pearance and is fairly readable at
sight
It must be seen by the foregoing,
by anyone i'm the least familiar with
the matter. that no spelling reform
system heretofore advanced at an
compares in accuracy i'm thorough
ness and in comprehensiveness of re-
search with Mi Euthys
T. T.. CLAYTON, commissioner Of ed
ucation. in his report to Chairman
Hughes of the house committee on
education, on Mr. Luthy's four manu-
scripts The siuman speech sounds, :
"Rle Roman Script Letters The
Simpification of English Spelling
aud The Universal Alphabet" states,
among other things
ut is easy to understand that the
general use of Mr. Luthys alphabet
and method of spelling, based on his
analysis of the human speech sounds,
would greatly simplify the spelling
and pronunciation of the English Ian
guage. If these were in general use,
to learn to read and write would be
much easier than IL now is, the ehmi-
nation Of illiteraey would so forward
much more rapidly and from ten to
twelve months Of time of the child in
school would be saved for other sub
iects. foreigners would learn to read
and speak our language much more
rapidly than they now do, and the ten
dency toward the adoption of English
as the world Language would be in
creased.
81 ann convinced that If few pop
ular books, especially books read by
children and young people, were
printed with the news alphabet and
revised spelling and given general cir
culatlon, the desired result would
gradually work itself OUT
Estimating the public cost of edu-
caung a child. the home expenses, and
the value Of the ehild's time at $500 a
year, the SO saving Of a years time
(ten months) to the school children
in the United States would amount
every eight years TO FIVE BILLION
DOLLARS
The investigation shows that while