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Show ClIVMins IN M'H.UMI. Our mother tongue, now rrcognlznd aa the chief uf modi rn Llasslct, Is ills, tlugiilahed from most other living linguagea by the simplicity of Its grammar, and eijuully ao by the iuronatteccy of Its orthography. At Intervals for tho last many years ellorls more or It-is Sa-nolle Sa-nolle have been Instituted lo elm pllfy our Kngllsh sielllug, and to develop rules of practice by which Ittttis standing alone und lu well-tlelluid well-tlelluid combinations will always hae tho same value In pronunciation, Ani iiui'ly any thinking man will welcome any element of consistency Into our present iinmethodlcil pronunciation, pronun-ciation, but habit aud custom have to be antagonized In any such attempt. We do not luttlid here to the numerous numer-ous example uf etiry day words which Illustrate such lucousliteuclts; our utject It n mote ipojul tine. Usually the students of solemn are particular to follow an accepts d uiagn u thoimplojinent ol their term.; but as tcleiico today Is everybody's Hi Ul, It Is not to lo marwled at that popular errors have male thel r si) even wlthlutheae mjatlo bounds. The need ol some accepte J standard for tho spelling and pronunUttlou of thenilo.il terms became j pressing that several years ag the body known as the Anifrlciu Association for lhe Advancement of Htlence apKlnted a committee of able iicutlcmcn to deal with tho motltr. This committee tins nporttd; itlitlr rccouiiuendatlous hnve been ado tid by the association; and now the national government through Itsdipartmentof the Interior, bureau of uiucatlon, has hwutd n chart, sm-bo sm-bo lying tho principles us ad jpto I by Iheassoulatlou, nud usks Unit tills be made the rule of conduct lu the nutter. Our attention has bun culled to It by one of our cllui-iu who Is n member of Urn distinguished awcUllon nlreaJy named. The geiiUimati kindly suu-uillttd suu-uillttd thechirtfor our examination, and wo mi iillnu the filloaiug Items, selected from a host uf leahiiVal rules fir the gulJauce uf prohailonals, as thosoglvtu hire will be used lu every day life: The lluul a Is dropped In all strictly chemloil terms exeeid one c'ass ol hydrocarbons; thin us shall I unite and pronounce clitoriit, not Otlotinf, iromlti, not ironihK, lotlln, nut inline, fiuorin, not I'uvnnt; morjhtu, nut ioiAfi; ijuinift, nui ' uiufie (and I renounce this tr ubUsoiuo word u'lnlii); Ccui'i ii it ciKniie. In another class of omiwunds this chatiRi) hi piles; thus It li propir to toy oikl not oxIJc; chlorlit nor el nritlf h 'trtrt, n't' ' "'"''' , alio ml ft'l, lint hi'; 'i 'I', or ' " This las' exairtpln 111 itrilea th' fli lo j In tutur, a most sensible procedure pro-cedure we am convince I. Vet It djes look strange, though It be strictly cor reel; but hi resller w must say sufur, suM f, in'uroui, onliu'Aurfo. We are riijunted by our chinilosl liaders to fellow them In this u-n ol prorer terms. We should ssy soifium cartonnle not r-xlie ctrtuialc, or curd nufe of fill i; Ifio tixuUt, n-it z'nolc vxlie, hjdivjtn twjli, not nrpAurelfrcfor tut-united tut-united hydrogen, etc. Theie changes are certainly In the prober direction. They Indicate the coming uf a system of sensible sen-sible phonctla sj idling In com. linn as In technical leims; and wo say sjetd this day .of Its gen eral adoption. Tnsre aro now In exlsteiicoeeveral toclttles tor Die pur-peso pur-peso of rendering po ular a few sensible Innovations lu tellliig. When these are generally acceted others will follow, thla course being considered prefirubtu to thuX of uttemptlug n wholesale change lit once. The thief of the new methods consist! In dro ping superfluous letter thus arc should bs written (ir gii t la dlsi-arded lorfieaul 711 en IssupilsnteJby flvn; thuuyh and n'thwh become lUu and tii'i, enfa'uue gives place to Qutaltp) Auie Is swept nway and Aae takes Its place. Theso abbreviated words stem strange to 111, but then every Innovation Innova-tion la strange, and the century Is characterized by chaugus; surely wo should bo somewhat u-ed lo them bj this time. |