Show I 1 A 8 EXiLING SP rie PIE ill I 1 NG editor deseret mews news how to teach spelling still remains a problem and learning still remains a task and will to the end the philologist can hardly under take a morg mora difficult or more hopeless task than that of reducing english orthography to anything like uniformity and at the same samme time make it tolerable to the generation or two who will bo be compelled to know both the present and the reformed gays ways during the period of 0 transition however desirable n s reformation may be it will not DO bot come in haste and the pros prof aeration must learn the current orthography tho graphy and the question constant s ta n jy aly recurs h how 0 w to teach I 1 it t many of oar teachers pay too little attention to this thia very wery important branch of an education hence a few suggestions upon the will be opportune spelling for the ordinary pupil cannot be learned without work A few seem to spell as a few seem to read or to bing sing by gift of nature burthey but they are very few formost for most spelling is the result of much 6 at study udy the irregularities of the language impose this ibis necessity upon very nearly at all and there is 19 at present no escape wo we may much prefer to be bei studying nature or to be studying algebra but if we would spell correctly and be sure that our letters and other writing will not disgrace us in this respect ct we must pay the cost we must learn the spelling lesbon nud and we must practise till we aro arg perfect the neglect of this thia wil will account for soma somer of tha the poor spelling prevalent in our schools and elsewhere aise alse where spelling is not practised practiced in such a 4 degree and with such exactness of requirement as aa to make safe spellers spelling like anything in 9 else Is beat learned by children chi laren when wilen special and sole attention Is given to it spelling if it be only u part of an exercise one of several things attended to will makelbust mak make elbut bub but slight impression Impressio grown up students may make mako s spelling an incident in connection with other des les lessons sons Y a class in physiology may have a spelling lesson in the term sor the aelen selen science relence as incidental to physiology composition and every written exercise should make spelling i an important children as a prule rule and children of quite large largo arow grow growth th will learn Fp spelling elling only by y atte attending anding to misspelling 1 ats A set lesson 1 in 1 12 chic which spoiling is the only test of merit and is the only thing required require da a lesson in which attention is fixed sharply on this oue one point is essential for children J jf spelling la not learn learned ed in eada earr earl lle ilfe life it Is scarcely ever learned thoroughly particularly la Is this the case with thoe those whose train training ink int in youth neglects this for all things they are good spellers and they only whose attention Is called coni scantly and sharply to the form of words shile while thile they arp getting their vocabulary and ate are first co coming ming into contact with written words as signs of ideas children now learn words as wholes and then separate them into letters in anthis t h Is w way ay t they hi ey very soon qoon learn to in jn oth other pr cords not yet taught to them the combinations which their eyes and ears first and then their tongues have already been n made familiar with and und BO so alq are constantly cand spelling ahead athe teachers tea chers chera lessons they learn to jump at pronunciation and ano meaning and very early in the process 4 of reading and spell u gaatz nith the teacher by munh much juare than has had beela bleu blen bt eu tau taualii aitt Alit it is not nt po possibly if it tic cid uca nabie or tio ifo tile iio feacher leacher to keep t he the spelling and analysis and definition nini fini tion h lessons and wha what other lesi les lea i sons bons it may be tiie tho eto connect with tig thi i acquisition of new printed words iu the first stages of book learning abreast with the childs child a own acquisition of a vocabulary he will learn words in their use and in their meaning faster than the teacher can possibly furnish them in the usual manner banner of giving lessons and he will learn them accurate accurately lys so as to know them and BO so as to reproduce them to the earald ear and to the eye in reasonably certain apposition to the exactness s and accuracy of the attention which he is compelled to exercise on such as form the material of his daily drill that is he will speedily and accurately extend his spelling lesson and his pronouncing lesson to words which are similar or analogous to those which hla hia lessons bave have fixed in his eye andean and ear ean ff these organs and his memory are drilled to see to hear and to remember some words just as they are he will for himself see and hear and remember many more and if the drill is kept up long enough he will be a reasonably safe speller but if this process is not begun early and persevered in rigidly during luring the first years of school 1160 life it is hardly possible that the child will ever eyer learn to spell the sharp sense and tile the ready verbal memory of childhood seem to be almost es esen eisen en tal tai to the learning of this art at the present time the almost universal method of spelling lessons is tho written the argument ia 13 good and the practice tico should be in writing T the he argument is good and the practice kralj ce is good it is possible however to overdo this or rather to neglect another aid it is true that we need to see a word just as it la Is in order to write it in the same iame way ourselves do we not also alao need to hear it just u t as it is for the same if purpose if ts both ear and tongue are aecus accustomed tomed to scrutinize words and both pencil and eye are habituated to reproduce them the habit babit of accuracy may have two points of attachments instead of one we do not want to make the writ written ter tei spelling less abundant but the oral a little more so sp shall our children learn b by y rule if the language would conform to rules this would solve the question but it will not till the reform comes cornea scarcely any rules which are not more confusing and misleading than helpful can be given three or four perhaps half a dozen may bo be of help but beyond this they are almost worthless for example to determine which of the two letter ietter of the diphthong dip thong e ei 1 pree prec precedes edes the other we are told by some that if the prece preceding dina dink consonant has an 8 sound e comes first th this is will spell many words and would be a great help but borsuch for such bothe bothersome csome exceptions as siege 81 bieve sieve eve financier ae and if there were not so many words in which e comes first though the combination 13 ia 13 not preceded by an s sound as foreign reign feign eign vein neigh ac kerl says always c ei ef how them then about deficient proficient sufficient conscience notto say glacier and specie sl many diany of the rules for spelling ling are like the returning re board commission about 8 9 to 7 rud and others aboul about atos 7 to 8 in their avor favor there being about as many exceptions as there are words under the rules A principle of arrangement of a spelling book may bo found in the classes of errors almost universally made these are the interchange of alphabetical equivalents double or single consonants the vowels of obscure or unaccented syllables and words of or similar or nearly similar pronunciation for examples the child does not know unless iio ilo lie he knows that is he cannot guess or dr determine by an any y rule ruie whether to write a or c in the last syllable of supersede and intercede interceder one g or two ga in maggot and fagot what vowel to write for the second syllable of separate palate se and origin and whether ther to write beach or beech principal cip elp al or principle as detach detached pd W words r da u undefined n nEd if he were drilled in miscellaneous collections of worda vordi is a rule being thrown in itow and then where a really helpful one cau can be made and a foretaste being offered of the tiie way in which words are made from other words just enough to suggest that a ve very ry inviting field lies not far outside e of ot his spelling les ies lesson and not neglecting a full fuu colled elop of phrases containing homophonous words would lie he not be tak taking ing lug about as us direct a road to correct orthography as can be found thus if all ail alche hu words ora good sharo share of them can laffal n el et au and d those containing ig ie le na apu tho those which have two ns us ir or gle g and those hill having ving only one and those which doub double e the P or drop the final vowel on undergoing some modification etc were put together and were followed by a collection of those which cannot bo be made to go together under any general rule or prim print ipie and if it were made up of spelling lessons only would not the ordinary teacher have a good spelling book but let it be repeated that faithfulness and persistency of drill on some plan is essential and that as a rule boys and girls who are allowed to spell inaccurately or to neglect it al altogether together will not spell correctly tho the way to learn lebruto to spell is ii to spell i 1 0 ler JET BIGOS ter supt 0 of f bist dist scho schools 01 a I 1 sperlin SPELLING G SALT aaice CITY march ath 1877 17 editor deseret news I 1 observed an article in in your columns yesterday from bupt 0 OH H riggs on the subject of spelling in the course of which he remarks that the pre ent ente system of spelling Is difficult to learn and requires a great many rules ru leswith with a corresponding number of exceptions to those rules and that it cannot be learned without work ho he might have added that it will require this work to be continued diligently for at least two years out of every ten allotted to education and that at the expiration of that period the pupil in nine cases out of ten will not be a safe speller he will then have haye such orthographical relapses that a websters unabridged dictionary will become an absolute necessity and additional time will bo be consumed in consulting that work in order to secure perfection in spell spelling ing that portion of the one hundred and fourteen thousand words of the english language which he may deem necessary to convey a correct understanding of his ideas when it ii 14 considered that so much timo time f and labor are necessarily at present expended on this thia subject with such meagre results by eack each each individual of an educated community and when it ia is conceded by our professors on all sides that the present system of spelling is erroneous and indefinite why do we perpetuate it why entail all this useless labor upon posterity if the system ia Is wrong why not abolish il it I 1 know some of the arguments that will be used against its discontinuance ie i e that it will take so long iong to compi complete ete f the reformation but if it is to be donea doneas many amany ad admit 61 t why postpone its commencement shall shail we be better prepared prepare d next week or next year or do we wish to shuffle onn off the responsibility ourselves that others in some acme succeeding generation may assume again wo we are told that our present literature would ba bd lost bat to those adopting the new now system but few of this generation will lose this literature for its system is already learned and for those who nho come comra affer us will the change be greater in say ditmans pitmans Pit mans phonetic system of spelling than the change from theold the old oid ED english k lish of or the eleventh century to the present style styles I 1 in n A ay D ios los 1087 7 we nin fin nind find d pas sages like tha follow following ing Thi thus so e byng willelm bearde bongean to norman neiman dige thing he dyde and him g alamp hu ru freow licor him that him 11 which translated reads this being thus done the diug william willaim returned again to io normandy A rueful thing he did and a rue lue fuller futler befell erell him how ruefully literally allyce he to him hirn grew ill III till that it t str strongly gly ailed bimm himm si some ome passages of our mother tongue angue might be quoted of several centuries later date without much on the foregoing I 1 think the two passages given above are not less dissimilar than the samp would be in the phonetic system tem of pitman and lind our oun and yet thi a passa passage 9 is is taken from some of that thap sacred 1 literature roof of the p as k which we are forbidden i to tran transpose but ihla this literature need not be lost lak we ian c san a q obtain lexicons fo to decipher tile the past and if deemed necessary for tho present system which will at any ny time fim e be easler easier to learn than another language and many persons do not pon gon consider sider that too toc much trouble in pursuit 0 information 4 but put admitting juit tIng hat that wo we should require new now type new now books etc ca can n we not obtain them wih WAH it t grieve the leaper maker the I 1 type ype lounder or the publisher to top inaus inaugurate urata buch such a demand remand and as LEI isi to the ex expense eils 6 tp P tilo the dommu community anity w will ill iii it not to be more e than counterbalanced counter balanced by the time timo and means saved which ia Is n now ow annually expended with so little profit fl t in acquit acquiring ing an imperfect knowledge of the present cumbersome and incongruous orthography PHONETIC cold coid bitnes FAIRVIEW t buncombe co cc N C feb 1877 editor deseret news after the long spell of cold coid weather for which people were not prepared i and by which they consequently suffered a good deall deail hear a good many complaining of hard times and that there is no prospect of its being any better at present people are expecting something they hardly know krow what but it is hard bard to make them understand the way of salvation that they might escape the destruction dest ruedon of the wicked that must surely come upon them A few have been baptized here and a good many more believe the principles of the gospel of jepps jesua jesus christ and I 1 pray god to enlighten their minds that they may accept of the same I 1 remain ao c WILLIAM PARSONS municipal election BRI BRIGlIA oralf Sr CITY I 1 march 6 1877 editor deseret neice building was commenced ed in iii earnest at the opening of this month it is expected that the new tabernacle will be completed before next winter sets in A splendid brick bick building to be used as a tithing office is under course of erection erect lorf at our municipal election yesterday J D rees bees was elected mayor IS 11 ij fishburn and J bywater aldermen A nichols H P jensen E A box A christensen and 0 C loveland oti Oli oveland councilors councillors counci lors A bird in worth two in the bush was performed here on the stage on saturday Batur satur day eve for tb the tho benefit of mr A thorne the house was crowded A Th thorne orlle orile E A box P F madsen it jj fishburn and D burt as well as misses parintha snow isnow and huldah jensen took the principal parts in the performance perron bance hance most moat respectfully A C |