| Show REFORM spella SPELL i s NO 4 editors deseret news according to the ce ced eed M united U states for 1870 persons of 10 y over who reported appo arted the th Itera iterate tV As haeny haens blo re leid be xi varly ill lii ly lj half of the cozens of i cannot read eli ell enuf ehy eby ehrgood good TN twenty enty one our ou ur nacy citizens cannoe cannot n t jie jio tle Q in anglani in ift 34 per pez cent w 63 nearly iiii 1111 illiterate terai teral cent could read and they hey ar worse wrin drin orin otin I 1 ej we illiterates there a 33 per gent cent in other counties ludes judes of europe th papuyo arvy advy AT vy few in jil delyi deriu or and ab d switzer none done io speak W of in C ce ia e 0 r cent t as i some states hav TO aneth tha causes of t K illiteracy among the ej ing people 15 the di engish E n lis spelling we ing ernest testimony from scholars and edu eduig england E and aud amer amerian muller diu niu SIu lIer iler in an article ol 01 oil ip ing lug says a s the highest p entil cd in tie the the public schoola was that the people st to read with tolerable n c n A passage from and e ll 11 the same with curacy cur agy apy course every year yn qt lea iea lean without reaching t til mentioned there are grades eighty elgh fy per cee cen ce of lb phe the e 11 fifth etli graae aws t the fourth Thorp therefore fore the children pass rass afim ment schools without it alid anda e myer TYer ably T tyl til lioney on ey thus pent spent s ria yain sain I 1 abb cause of or this falk faili pol poi ponte fe doul dout by dr M R 1 eier tier 46 s inspect in a f til emain e main maln difficulty di 0 glish ilg sass says sa s t arises irregularity 0 cx language A confusion hin h in n the mind of the ing the p powers wars p af pf f the L is very slowly slowly and v cleared up by chance fience and hs cap capao capac words is gained by an ries if edoris it appears that out of 1 I the civil service exam candidates were plue that is IS 18 out of every failoni feild in spelling it the ear is no guide in english rather nather er the rei it is almost necessary sonai bonal acquaintance wi nd vidual word it bwy woula wre laire a stu study dy of latin an anglo 0 saxon on to S spen with kith af al this t isi in most most mast cases isi t at is enforced in this I 1 max mam A bax muller wier 3 i the question that answered answered sooner or can this u spelling english be al at fo reyer revert I 1 Is every en ED compared compain red with other mulcted mulched ja n two or 1 liis ilis ilfe life froia m order orde to les lea lower classes to tp go th out femmino to read an own a the country to pad pay al j yap sip joau jean oar car for tle the vitter titter faike faite fad ou education catlon cation I 1 do not hsuch buca suca a state of things ept eft to go on fo fon foe ever rl pa is at hand 1 the sooner it is is taken i better there thero th ere ero is 1 a mi hind these fonetia re rel 1 arch bishop trench has haf I 1 meal mez ime imo lured by millions school sj who might 11 year aud and with rel rei what th tb four or five years tx tt dom succeed in emir emid As the reform of I 1 lis i ia apprich app rach t from thil this I 1 raly regard wrt wn i tr ivance for fon for teaching tea clung I 1 machinery of pro 0 74 and me the 4 H it is like the of other labor the invention of tb or Jele graf does il u as much to the weihe weibe would the invention tion of a good ing the th e difference be who can read and ont out vastly vastly more mote important im ference fere nc between ono one that uses rail rall roa s and tel tei rata rats rafa and gnp one that thai does W noti rhe 1 es sentral idea dof good roa rom I 1 march acis is that each elementary sound hav its own sign and each sign flown sound gound in a perNet alfa affa bet to be adia sure the characters would bbetsy be eatS WW and to distinguish distin and shapely like ilke sounds pounds woul would woula fi hav av like ilku s signs gusy and like series serie soo of rounds sounds vout voul imy series of si sign liked likis analogies or of dorm eacer character would woula suggest the position of the 01 gans of f speech in m making it kuithe world use hse the same signs with fo alfa bets should be esteemed better as they incidentally embody more im c ort ARCHI nii nil s stor tory y butr n one of these f incidental 1 ci dental qualities should be permitted to interfere with the essential purpose of du an altabet alf abet the aary lary easy communication muni cation of thought by signs of vocal sounds t following fol Pol lowing the above he be shows how silent and strange letters were introduced and the vowels changed ii dulian julian guage in early days pays by the romans romalis anglo saxons and normans and further says sass bayst aldr dr frank h noah webster and other patriots of that time for ha american language if nc necessary essary as well vell as an american nation they wrote and printed in fonetia spelling but after the revolutionary ardor past the literary class turned with renewed affection to the old coun country try the old home vav Yav favorite english engh sli sti editions of shakespeare and milton Addi locke pope aud dryden with now and ind then an old folio of ben johnson or chaucer or piers plowman with a grandfathers name on it easily both rien pter and franklin the tho veny ceny cery very paper hud and binding and alad the spelling sweet by and by rose sir walter scott and byron wordsworth and coleridge and all their thel host the talk taik of fan an american language castaway past awny away or retired to the backwoods back woods and whenever schemer yf of defor reform yvet spell spelling ng wen wea broach t f a as they fi ai were tio now W ariu arid then th en the literary elas eias ela eia s took them as a kind of personal insult and over whelma wh el m d th the e reform ergui th imm es 7 unable reproach and g inextinguishable eting after latter v tr but now it seems as tho a complete revolution has taken place in irl the views of our scholars scho lors the Thes pil it of the age works powerfully upon them they ar arno no longer nger contented to DO spectators merely and c critics readers of records and solver solvers of riddles of the past but they wish to do something to aid in improving the estate of man 1 I was prejudiced formerly says the hon I 1 geo eo P laarss as most scholars against novelties but th the argument r is too strona strong stron on the other ot r side and I 1 should be g glad giad iad lad boege to see eee a fonetia spelling ra avace bv ACE |
