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Show BRIEFER SPELLING.-Browne's Phonographic Monthly says that the adoption of phonetic spelling would make a saving of seventeen per cent, or about one-sixth in every department of paper and book making and general writing. To the writer the gain would be equal to one hour and twenty minutes a day of eight hours, or four hundred hours in a year of three hundred days, or one thousand such days in twenty years. The New York Daily Tribune would cost $8 a year instead of $10; the Independent would contain six pages more of matter without increase of cost; a book now costing $5 would be sold for $4.17; the investor of $200 in books would save $33.33; the eyes of the reader would have one sixth less work to do in a given amount of reading. The saving to all departments of English literature, it is estimated by careful observers, would reach the enormous sum of $600,000,000 yearly. Why not cast out the silent letters and spell as we speak?-Home Journal. |