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Show FONETIKS. .. We hav not room at present, to dwell upon this subject at length, but wish to produce a few thots for the thotful to comment upon at leisure. The English language is very obscure ob-scure to the uneducated, for the pres- - iwen U etie used to represent simple sounds, hav collectivly no less than the enormus r . number ob553 diffei en t values. The letter a, the first letter in the tilfabet; has 9 different sounds, as in I the words 'imagine, mating, many, paring, father, fat, fall, want, dollar.' The letter o has 9, us in woman, women, nor, hop, work,, son go, clo, compter. The combination eo has 9, asm people, leopard, dungeon, 1 yeoman, galleon, leod, McLeod, aureo- 4 la, theology. Each karakter should hav but one sound and vice verse. We all know that much of the spel-i ing of the English language is quite bad, yet it might be worse. A Frenchman who had never seen the a . : . word scissors, might spell it s-c-h-i-e-'t;-; s-s-o-u-r-r-h-i-c-e, just as reasonable 'r-' as to spell fcizic p-h-t-lw-s-i-c. If e-n-o-u-g-h spells enuf, p-l-o-u-g-h epells pluf, s-l-o-u-g-h sluf, and bo on thru the entire catalog of words. Of course many words will do as they ar now spelt, but we need a uniformity of spelling fonetically, so that children can learn to read and write our lan- - gunge without being vext with so ' many outlandish hifalutanalities. Just think of it! A. child having ' s to learn 553 different values to the 26 ! " - letters of our alfabef! when, by having van alfabetof4karakters to repre- jt . . sent the 43 elementary sounds of the lv. English language, nil words could be t , asily apelt. Why not abolish the 553 -- - h- . different valuations and adopt the 43 letters? Echo answers "why not?" |