Show WOULD CUT OUT nUT THE OLD FORMS clr w C egi Qs s His gis Opi ion of the Proposed Reform of Spelling LANGUAGE IS CHA CHANGING 4 ALSO IN NE OF CHANGE Rot Hot Va March 2 Carnegie made a statement to th lay y tv king ing his views jew on t the e proposed reform of English spelling He said From Chau ers tine timo and b fore till now language h s been constant constantly ly changing and nd Improving DOt under tinder any r rule le or system simply as S oc occupation has required new worta wons and flew The great Oxford dictionary now pricier publication Uon gies the history of each word and shows hows that tha words creep In our language in the most moat ard manner A new word es a anew anew new want or an old want better than toe the word in use did and so forces farces into use Nothing cap can po be barred out while the word invented with the st strictest to rules may aY apply in vaIn What Is slang oil year Is correct English a feW years later at r Thus Is our language enriched It js Is a slow pr pro process cess but a steadY and sure one All the struggles of pendants and nd purists tire are helpless against it Will Proceed SloWly The organizatIon effort I have agreed to finance is n not t revolutionary Far from It Its action will be core con Word after word it will endeaVor to improve the spelling and the lan han Slowly of course but hasten hastening hastening ing the pace if possible The editors who are disposed to ridicule the effort themselves use and especially s which their predecessors of a century ago would have denounced na as degrading literature The editors of the tho next en tury will in turn marvel at the un uncouth unCOuth couth spelling of our present scribes Since our language has as been con through chime literary men should welcome new words and new nev wi with h favoring eye since it is by b these al alOne ne that fur further thor ther improvement can c come me Scholars denounced denounce plow for plough for in instance stance But plow ha hail been accepted So with many words pat will readily occur to the reader English wm Will Prevail Our language is likely to prevail in inthe inthe the world and we may hope it is to become finally the univerSal language the most potent of aU all for drawing the race together g peace and advancing TIm The foreigner has th eat ja n acquiring it of ifs Is i p This Is at least chief ob for or its gramm Is IsHun epy Hun Hundreds f g Q r rIY nen hi e to U uso v ved q sp spOIling lUng for twelve words Those wO words QS are already well started in actual use Other will be s suggested U tr I 1 rl they wm will be a accepted Teachers have hate assured me that children would be saved more than a ayears years instructions It if our spelling were simplified Why the pery ough spelling should be I cannot understand The Tho expresses exactly the same as though and e presses expresses the sound better The change Is at once obviously advantageous and I find many already using Jt It in writing and some of the eare British Britis authors Indeed tho with th the superfluoUs s apos apostrophe apostrophe abounds In British a authors thors from Addison down We just drop the apostrophe That tho will get et into general use is certain Our successors will smile at the ough spelling as we today at we called the queer spelling of Chaucer Engaged tn in Useful Work In tr trying ing to hasten the use of sim d spelling and to tn improve our own language for the struggle for first place which is even today upon us we are engaged in a most useful work I 1 hope that people will give this important and conservative reform due consideration and resolve to use at least two or Of three s mp words and thus range thEmselves with us in our effort to carryon carry op the unceasing unceasing ing work or of improving our mother tongue and adapting for it Its noble pup pUr pUrpose pose and high destiny II |