| Show some cerman si lUns elling in the german empire no depart department mant of life escapes the vigilant eye of government departments one of the latest instances of this benevolent supervision la Is a circular which has just jast been bissu issued e d by the colonial office at berlin from this document we learn that the foreign office at the request of the colonial council appointed a committee of exper experts tap and presided over by dr herzog secretary of the colonies to consider the spelling of geographical names in the ger man man protectorates protect orates the deliberations of the committee have resulted in a code of rules which start from the principle that all spelling is to be ba as nearly its as possible phonetic and to reproduce the pronunciation nuncia tion of the natives not of europeans then there are detailed directions for I 1 lae uso use of the particular vowels and consonants so of accents and hyphens A promise is given that a gazetteer will be compiled in compliance with the directions above given A standing committee is ia to superintend the work and issue from time lime to time lists ts of approved spellings which will be ba enforced on officials official and which it is hoped journalists and authors will follow london telegraph |
