The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-06-17
cal culture liberal these South
Our Mother Tongue.


their country and the ancient race they belong " the
Obligation mean, its purity simplicity and beauty
English dear mohongue the most precious inheritance
ancestors Language said Dr. Johnson the pedlgee
the sometimes the connecting link between
1t stretches back far beyond all writ
Item records writing
Language noblest most precious thoughts
safely embedded and Great cities have pe
have sunk into oblivion and mighty empires ship
wreck language, priceless freight has safely
crossed the CULTS of time Language the arory " the human mna
and contains trophies the of its
have been composed in it. The Had OF Homer great yet
great beauty the Greek language Mil
noble for people to have inherited
tbut our English tongue s a nober heritage still.
modern, the English language in its
structure vocabulary and most logical its ru
hampered and brdened by hard and fast rules OF grammar
has caed-a grammarless tongue True the
Yankee Quaker Lndey Murray tried to force into strait jacket OF
Latin and Greek nguag with all
their complicated pepxng moods and lenses of verbs
their gnders numbers and
propositions and active verbs and in the
rules of grammar How they have vexe the
hooooms 1t absurd and ridiculous TO SUBJECT
simple English the Of the Latin or Greek
infections and endgs
moods or lenses gender person. English
gage has only what called the
conjugaon Irregular in Frencwhch is
daughter Lathere 21e5 different endngs Latin there
the Greek language there must be in all ten
the Greek vern Engsh
language there only four or FIVE
This SIMPLICITY vocabulary. English
Aneossxon speech the most syllable
Many Shakespeares beautiful consist
tey wholly words of syllable Tennyscns In Memor"
in words of syllable The mpc
y literary beauty English Bbe and Bunyans Pill
and indeed all writer's of poetry or prose-
Is language danger losing wholesome and homebred
quality simplicity and the Of words two syabe simple
words? fear that at this time and in this country we are
drifting in that direction
Phoretic Spelling.
the important duty mother tongue to
protect those misguided people who case in
change the spelling of the words our vocabulary From
going sorry say, with too much
We advocates of Phonetic Spelling who claim that
according they sounded conceive Of
would efecua eface and babare English Ian
that woulud far empty Of all the boarded wit
WISDOM poetry history which contains this absurd unscholary
scheme the Phonetic Spelling enthusiasts They forget that
has exenceas sponken word and written word
exists for the for the civilized people
have ancestry and ancient noble one IN many cases.
the clear marks of their birth and parenage
Phonetic spelling uthy deface those marks"
would then impossible from An
foreahers had Hebrew Greek Latin Norman
origin language instead of being fossil poetry and
history would degraded the level of the sound language OF the
something better than the sounds
emitted by chimpanzees gorllas
that it matter learn to spell correctly
we'll worth the trouble would for example,
ending ou should always be sounded the same way and
though through bush But there inter-
estng historical reason to account for this
simpE6ed Spelling.
Phonetic Spoilers have not been
formerly They however, to be making common
misguided and unhoar sect who mschievouy
ntermeddlng spelling words advocating what they call
png They organized association body
make spelling lesson easier for the Aer
school children Nor do they lack money! for my
Carnegie weeanng but not weeducated
the smpfed Spelling This enabled them to-
uloy and send forth country we'll trained speakers
Smpifed Spelling 1t wonder that they convert
many propaganda We the effect of their mis-
that
millions of readers The Literary Digest
nter-eddng with spelling thing 1t began
lin this country more than years ago; truth that
Americans The anEngsh feeling naturally engen
by had almost changed to friendship