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Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-28 | Page 1 | Dr. Dewey Urges Alphabet Change

Type issue
Date 1926-11-28
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Dr. Dewey Urges Alphabet Change
Type article
Date 1926-11-28
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 1
OCR Text Dr D Dewey wey Ur Urges es I Alphabet Change Says Say's New System of Letters Letters Letters Let Let- Would Save Billion Bil lion Annually PHILADELPHIA Nov Kov 27 AP RevisIon r-RevisIon of the alphabet would save the nation one billion dollars a year Dr Godfrey Dewey Harvard university professor told delegates to the English language congress today tOd-ay Dr Dewey vey f followed his announcement announcement announcement announce announce- ment of the trie saving to be effected by bya a new system of letters with a concrete scheme for putting i it into effect The new system considerably considerably considerably consid consid- In excess of twenty six x letters letters letters let let- would Jude Include twenty-four twenty Consonants thirteen vowels four tour diphthongs and anda a sign for the word the which in itself takes up 7 per Ier cent of all the words in the printed page h he said Under tho the hew system lone words be sp spelled with witha a few letters such as through being expressed in three In three s symbols Millions Millions' of of tons less of print paper would be needed needed- it was said and huge sums would be saved in type composition comp Plans for tor phonetic spelling de designed designed designed de- de signed to shorten words had been offered earlier In the tho meeting Dr DI Deweys Dewey's plan plan provided for no change in spelling with present letters let let- but suggested that the type designers be called In to remodel the entire alphabet Another plan for making maling the thela la language lg ag age more un understandable of- of of 1 by Dr Hahn Kurath of ot Northwestern rn u university recognized the difference of ot pronunciation in n inthe n the eastern western and southern sections of the he country and pr provided provided pro pro- vided for dictionaries with different phonetic marking for these sec see
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