Show economy irl in spelling 9 some french statistician ilas has turned immelt loose on the subject of wasted words and letters the french and english languages are as he proves with many figures especially open to va criticism lost 1 1 11 in this matter and money la is every year by lack ot of verbal economy the french language contains 13 13 per der cent ot of useless letters there are in the language C asoo journals published and they P print r in t 1 0 8 0 0 0 00 letters every ape that 1 5 6 words are er y year a r so needed not ot because they are printed but they have come to bo be used in the french language as it Is spoken the tha wilter coin computes that Is the annual cost ot of tills useless expenditure ink in III r france rance alone of the english of journals printed in there are and they are language twelve per cent ot of our printed larger letters are sir skipped over by the tongues pronouncing the words and so letters lie useless thrown away Is fill a large amount of on to say up lip goes space oll on oil paper and in this way Is lust among anglish speaking people and in france the time taken up in writing these useless letters it if estimated at 5 a day per pc r journalist Is worth tl grand total the inter ocean |