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Show CHANGES IN SPELLING Board Issues Thirty Rules for Abbreviated Words New York, March 24 The simplified simpli-fied spelling board will issue tomorrow tomor-row a "fourth list of simplified spell 'nKs ' It Is contained in a 16-page pamphlet, circular No 26. in the re?-ular re?-ular series. The new recommend;' tlons of the board are comprised in T'i rules, some of which involve changes more noticeable than any of those it has hlthorto put forth All tho rules so far recommended are applied in the present circular, and the four-page introduction exhibits exhib-its such striking examples as follolng, PUDliaht, alredy, speld. preferd, thru-out, thru-out, cald. wer. practls, formd. shal. ar, wll. executiv deflnlt, detormlnd, od catalog, serlus, fysiciaus. dout. them-selvs, them-selvs, givs, previus, arius. digrafs, anomalus, alterd. caractcriat ie fllolog ic. ful, clas, enterd anser. frend. mor gage, yoman, obviusly. paragrafs One reason that the changed spellings spell-ings are so much In evidence on th piiuted page is that so many of the simplifications now recommended affect af-fect words in more common use than those in the three former lists Thp f I rsr list " (the "three hundred words" published In 1906). indeed, M th? circular points out. was not a list of newly simplified words at all but a selection of simpler forms from more than 3000 words already in good use. being, in the greater part, thoee preferred by the three principal American Amer-ican dictionaries The "second list," published two years later, contained some forms that were unfamiliar to readers of only modern literature, but that were for the most nart restorations of slmDh ficaiions formerly in high literary use A year later (1909) the "third list" appeared, containing only four gener al rules. The three lists were then put together in one "alfabetlc list, " also issued In 1909. Since that time, the circular state. ' the board has been engaged in the preparation of a provisional "Vocabulary "Vocab-ulary of Simplifications" intended "tj include all the ordinary words of the English language that admit any simplification sim-plification of spelling, according to I the existing rules and analogies, and I without increasing the present alfa-bet." alfa-bet." This "Vocabulary" is ready to be published "when it shal appear that the supporters of the genernl i cause ar redy to accept It." The "fourth list" is put forth to "remove many minor irregularities and thus clear the ground for the work that remains to be done." "In publishing this Fourth List." the i circular goes on to say: "The Simplified Spelling Board and its Advisory Council and the many I thousnnd professors, teachers, superintendents, super-intendents, clergymen, lawyers, fysl-cians fysl-cians and other supporters for whom ; they speak, declare their desire to ' bring about an Improvement in Eng-I Eng-I lish spelling, in this way, in these words, here and now . . . An l allowing for the necessary, and indeed in-deed desirable, proportion of criti-I criti-I cism and dout which always accom-I accom-I panies new proposals, we may Bay that this great hody of educated men 1 and women, no matter in what d-j d-j gree they U6e the simplified spelling; tbemselvs. wll hereafter ad rise teachers teach-ers to teach and children to use these new spellings." The reader Is urged. In considering these new rpelllngs. not to be "too much influenst by the 'od' appearance of the word Any change must look S od at first. Consider, rather, whether the change would bring a real train, j if the public should accept it. Con-1 Con-1 sider whether the change is in the , right direction the direction of slm-I slm-I pliclty economy, regularity, reason " Some of the new spellings recommended recom-mended that will strike the ordinary reader as most "revolutionary" are tho following: Omitting the h after c In wnrd-like wnrd-like chameleon, chaos, character, chasm, chorus, archaic, cho. etc. (Rule. 1), and to spell them cameleon. caos, ' caracter. casm. corns arcalc, eco, eti Dropping the final silent -e after a single consonant preceded by a short (owel. strest. "or by any strest vowel whose sound is not conventionally as-soctaaed as-soctaaed with the silent final -e" I (Rule 3). This gives such forms as. jbad. hav, jrh, llv, forgiv, mtsglv, ar, gon. wer. etc Changing final -ew pronounced as long u after 1. r. or ch. to -u (Rule 6) ; and dropping the final -e in words lending in -ue, pronounced like long u. aller 1 and r (Rule 27). The application ap-plication of these rules gives rise to forms like blu (for blew), clu. flu, slu, bru, cru, gru, thru (for threw), cbu, and blu (for blue), glu, ru. tru, accru, Imbru etc. Rules 16 and 20 referring to final -oe, and -ow, prouounced like o, produce pro-duce similar changes with respect to such words; such as do. flo, fo, ho. ro (for roe and row), wo; and bio, bo. cro, glo, sno belo bello, me-llo, pillo, wlllo, etc. Gh pronounced f is changed to f by Rule 8 in wordB ending in -augh, I -aught, and -ough; and such forms re-I re-I 6ult as draft, laf. lafter, cof, enuf, ruf and tuf. And silent gh Is dropt from I augh. and from ough pronounced like out (Rule 9). Hence we have aut. i caut, dauter hauty, slauter, taut, and the like; and drout (for drought). AVords beginning with gn- (Rule 10) and kn- (Rule 12) pronounced n, drop the initial g and k, giving naBh, nat, naw, nome, etc , and nack. nave, nead. I nee nlfe nit nob nock etc. For the f present the k is retained in kno ((or iknow) and knoledge (knowledge). IJh pronounced f Is changed to f la I all cases ( Rule 21 1 and affects n mul-titude mul-titude of words, many In common use. llkr- lelefone. fonograf, telegraf. etc Then, by a general rule (30) and several special rules, there is a whole-i whole-i t-al.- dropping of the final letter In ' word ending in double consonants. ' -bb. -dd, -ff, -gg. -11. -nn. -rr. -ss, -tt, and -zz. resulting In spellings like cd. ad, od. cuf, eg, wel, wll, er, glaa, mis, net, buz. The silent w is dropped from words beginning with -dr (Rule 28), producing produc-ing the forms rap, reak, reath, retched. rigRle, rlst. rite, rltor, rong, etc. Another conspicuous change is in dropping the o iri the termination -ous iRule 19), Hence we see enor-mub, enor-mub, famus, gloriut;, ridiculus. etc. The circular glveB a long list of thorn. Final -some, too, becomes -sum. In words like fulsum, gladsura, hand- suin. Other silent letters are dropped in I special cases; and the preterits end-I end-I iug in -need and -rsed, pronounced J respectively nfit and rst are so rec-I rec-I ommended to be spelled, as In danst, convinst, forst, pierst, evldenst, etc. oo |