Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1920-05-11


of his mother tung, becaus the Latin original from
which the French words 'dette" and ''doutte"
derry Il, ar debit" and "dubitus'' per-
fectly useless silent letter was saddld upon the
boys and girls who have had to learn to spell
English from that time to this Let write them
according to the French originals, and leav their
Latin branch of the family.
4 Dain; corrected from "deign'' Dain dis
dam and dainty all com from the same French
word, daner''. which in its turn was from the
Latin ''dgnitus' The 2 sound had dropt out
before it reacht the English, and was not written
in the Middl English word. Dan and disdain
should be spelt alike.
). Sovran and foren; corrected from 'sover-
eign'' and foreign The dictionary maker evil
IDENTIFY got these good old English words MKT with
"regn'', from the Latin ''regere. regnum'', to
rule. But neither ''sovran' nor 80 forein" has any
relation to the Latin. They should be spet as
Milton and other early writer's wrote them.
6. Agast and easily; corrected from "aghast''
and 'ghastly''. These words ar in no way Fe-
lated to the word ghost The photographer
seems to hav inserted the h for other reason
than he fancied they akin to this word
Z. Hand, and lie; corrected from island and
ar in way related to the Latin Ursula, from
which the dictionary maker got his silent S.
S. Ale; corrected from aisle The silent
got into this word by association with 'sle'
Should be written without the s. as it was by early
writer's
8. Demene; corrected from 'demesne" The old
French term did not contain the silent S. It's in
sertion was blunder.
10. Delibl; corrected from ''deleb''. Indelibl
and delibi should be spelt alike. There is no other
English suffix "ebl'', and no why this ex-
ception should be tolerated
II. Rhine; corrected from rhyme" This good
old English word was probably confus'd with the
Greek Rhythm by the photographer, who
therefore spelt it erroneusly with the "hy''
instead of l.
-. Beuty; corrected from beauty The
Old French ''beute" and not beau is the word
from which beuty derv'd.
ID. Harken; corrected from ''hearken''. Hark
contains no e. and there should be none in
harken.
H. Controller; corrected from comptroller.
Mistake of the early etymologists. The older
form is controller.
10 AXE; corrected from "ache'. Historically
the original word was spelt AXE for the verb,
and cache" (pronounc't ''ateh') for the noun
form, just as bake verb, and batch noun. Later
they confus'd d. with the result that the wrong
spelling given the verb.
16 Words with 'ae' and zoe" should drop
the a and 0.
dieresis esophagus Phenician medieval
esthetic ecumenical Phenix anesthetic
II. Epitomy; corrected from 'epitome''.
Anatomy comes from the same Greek word, and
it is not spelt 'anatome'' Besides, the tendency
is to pronounce epitome in three sylabls, eptome.
The 'y" ending obviates this difficulty.
10. Wills; corrected from victuals The Old
French was .'vitailles' Middl English 'vittles'.
When the etymoogists discovered the Latin
"victualia' y, they Immediately inserted Tie truant
letters and made it conform with the Latin in
appearance, thoh it pronounct the same as
before
49, a. was inserted in fault (fGute) and
''d' in adventure (aventure) and many other
errors hav been made in words, but as the inserted
letters ar now pronounc't, it is better to allow
them to stand as they ar, and make change.
The photographers hav made many other
errors in words of less common use. but most Of
them seem less fragrant violations of the rules of
representation and therefore not so necessary that
they be corrected
In our next and last study we shall take up the
powers of the varius letters and discuss the few
irregularities which we find in the representation
of the ordinary long and short sounds of the Ian
guage, the different sounds of So, Sc" and "g";
and the formation Of som plurals. The corrections
suggested viii concern only words who's sounds ar
represented in unusual way, combinations
Of letters which us d to stand for sounds COM
monty represented r. sem other letter or combj-