Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-21
English Is the Coming World
Language, Says Charles 7. Luthy

tails Of education, whose professional
drill i'm logic, whose many 'years Of
experience at the head of offices
whore everything that was too big.
too complicated or too profound for
others 20 unravel came to his desk
and whose varied experience and
years Of study eminently qualify him
FOR the purpose
Mr Charles ~. Luthy OF Peoria,
lll accountant. attorney, iobbcr ana
student who is visiting his brother, j.
F. Luthy in this city, has abandoned
4 his profession ana his business ca
reer. and has made a thirteen years
Thorough investigation Of the simplifi-
cation Of English spelling. The in
lvestgatipn shows that the authors Of
I The spelling reforms heretofore adj
Ivocatcd did not investigate the subject
Sufficiently that they did not ombody
( the essential elements in their sys-
TENS. and that such systems were,
! therefore not adapted 70 the situa-
I udn. ANA that ON the other hand Mr.
/ Luthy's investigation is complete that
iit shows what the essential elements
Iare. and, embodyng them, logically
! evolves out OF and adapts to the sit
Iuation both a provisional system that
Iretains the present spelling To the
Igreatest degree practicable, ana the
universal alphabet which seems to be
/ the ultimate solution Of the problem.
/ An spelling reforms tend Go the rep
IresenUup each sound in the spoken
word by it's own, unmistakahlc letter.
as each spoken mineral is represented
'by lbs own. unmismkahle figure tn
IreadIue and writing numbers there lis
mo. hesitation one knows The invcs-
litigation shows that SO to reform the
spelling involves four essentials, viz:
tCl Che correct analysis Of the human
speech sounds co the correct analy-
SIS OF Roman script. go the office Of
the English language; and ca the
universal alphabet But that none of
these things have heretofore been sci-
Ientfieally investigated the following
shows
OD 10 write correctly by sound, the
speech sounds must be understood.
But the Investigation shows that The
tive English dictionaries, Webster,
/ Worcester. the Century the Standard,
ana the oxford in their keys to The
pronunciation variQusly give from
forty to ninety-flve and a. j.
Ellis the great English phonetician,
gives 278 different sounds in the
English language and that the Sim
plified spelling board enormously pre-
iseribes to change the spelling and pro
luuucmtiou of d TO { CATER a surd)
lin.712 of It's list of $500 words, thus
making. for example, the words
missed packed, rapt, identical with
Ipdst, pact rapt which is not tho ease.
such >oieclcss form of the d-sound is
made with mouth pressure whereas
the t-somd IS made with diaphracma-
lite pressure. they cannot Zoe made
'othcrV ise This shows that although
the speech sounds have been studied
for over 1000 years that lcXicograph-
crs and simpltftcd spelling board,
whose president Is a Harvard profess
sor. whose secretary was the ctymo-
logical editor of the Century Diction-
larry and among whose members u
counts one Of the publishers Of the
Standard Dictionary, the Literary III
gest. etc. do not understand what
constitutes different sounds nor the
differentiation of the breath into the
different classes of cousonants.
tol Print type can be east by the
, million mlt every script letter is made
, los hand The script letters To be
, moVemcntaliy correct, must therefore,
correspond TN the directions of their
lines with the directions Of the matt
, ural actions of the fingers, hands.
Ielc.: ana as the Enelish, French
spanish. etc, write in Roman script,
! This has attained so Wide q prevalence
that 10 seems destined Tor the world
. writing. wherefore the script letters
. must be of Roman script style. But
las the Chicago Record Herald has
shown that high school scholars write