Show rhe the Shape words J I 1 vily old bid question of a ormin re trman irman the spelling of the english language adf aff w discussed dicus Alcus see sef A by 6 the th american philological asso Association i which met u at t 7 newport te w P 0 r t jast last summer the tho upshot s 1 io t of 0 f t the tho h e discussion was tha thet appointment of a committee of six linguists to the subject qt and 1 nd rep report brt upon it at the aeeti meeting g of or the philological convention in tills this elty hext ean zear ear r will attach to fo the question from the ithe fheo fact that i nd Trum bun buU the two member sot jhb committee who were vere were the tho most learned and aid strenuous advocates of extensive changes in our dur 13 present resent Opell spelling hig li have ve aiso also been heen appointed n by the governor of or connecticut u t h as in embers members af ota ofa iii ill ili I 1 to 0 provide an tin amended orthography for public dil iio lio n an n llis jils address add before the rony vony convention ev dr trumbull who basits was waa its president ar guedin fayon favor of ortho ertho graphic changes cha ilges more sweeping th thanN weah pah NV ebster webster eief projected antee and we believe belleve that prof whit licy ricy 8 views accord in an the maln main with w ith those ohis othis colleague colle agun agud two other p members of the new connecticut commission the rev bev samuel 11 hart artand and prof AV we fowler fowier are also advocates of orthographic reform thou though gh they may not so far fag as whitney WJ and trum bril bull til tal aye aya ye presume therefore that t the report of the commission toche to fhe the next sies fies slon sion of the connecticut negla Legis legislate legislature latu e will be pretty radical rat lical ut dt whether whet her will so with the as to a adopt opt their ther recommendations and attempt to in introduce tro duce a new now system ire Irp mains to be seen english sp spelling 4 lingi as well as the spelling of ather languages LI Europe kiro P ean anin and d oriental is constantly undergoing change we have departed from the spell ing that was pra fra practised practiced with variations inthe in the time of chaucer but fk from orn oin that thai of shakespeare rind tind his als con contemporaries iwho who were vere we very irregular spellers andover from that which dr samuel johnson adopted in his famous dictionary atthe at the blo hlo bof the last jast century the spelling ill ili vogue irith inith ls country also aiso differs somewhat from that in england though tiie the tile difference is slight 0 mid and a small number bc of words noah webster desired bd a atar alar far mor more thoroughgoing thorough going system of df reconstruction st in spelling than he be felt himself able t to 0 carry out but many ot creven of even such novelties as he introduced in into the tho earlier cailler editions of his dle die dictionary failed to meet popular 0 approval aud alid and have not ll 11 held heid pau their ground grO tand uund tile the changes in english spelling during the last nive five centuries or since sinco our language 6 boned its pr 0 e ou sent bent compo composite sito site character have bave been beon brought and have havo beatt oh no pt system br selen isolen tine tille principle there have been many theoretical orthographic re te formers with great chemes but all these I 1 havo have fallen stillborn amborn As it has beon been with them so 86 will viii ic it bo be with any other sweer sweeps flig ing reform in spelling thal that may ay bi be proposed propos edd rot not evel even tho the philo P hilo logical convention nor y vet pt the orthographic co i nor tho the legislature telio itself an can ean da do 0 anything arlyth ilig more in the pre pro ini taisea jp beof of interest to a few linguists lyew new york sun oct 15 |