Show V y TW A it 55 irwy lit adlin ly CHARLES e noted linguist and nd duiker banker ofner ef new york lei I 1 am not now writing as a 1 of the simplified spelling board boards tho J use all the simplified forms recommended d ed bj by its exe cutly committee and hav liay J voted for them 11 all ck et in my private vitto capacity I 1 claim wa ti 4 the liberty of stil further at least fo to the ex teat tent which was adopted in 1880 1886 after fal ful consideration by tho the american philological and the philo logical society of great britain people hav never thought of aa as a thing capable of improvement they think of it as ono one pf p the of bratun something tui escapable unavoidable irresistible like tho the rising and setting attl i ng of the enn sun or 0 the arrangement of stars in the f firmament Irnia ment they never hav thought of it as merely ait we attempt to picture tho the spoken language which is the real language the picture ia is not a very perfect one why not touch it up and make it more lifelike life like I 1 doubt if we can even approach very near to perfection in our time yet it ie is perfectly practicably abi abl to attain easo nabi accuracy we hav not enough letters to go around in dealing them out to the numerous sounds of our language langu ac hence we hav resorted to combination combinations of two letters ant and sometime needlessly to three or four tho the committee of our forrd lor rd to which was committed a the op opening elling of the campaign imposed upon itself the limitation that it would for its first recommend econ imand only spellings already in use beally the most beneficial results wil follow from changes which are etil stil to be made one of the most perplexing points ia is the io ie i o e and und PI P I in receive delict belie c etc ete if all the ils ie wera removed from thew there would be no lois ev ean u ai as to derev denotation bation ia tion and great gain to many who are now puzzled by these alt words after all the arguments af ar dinst simplified laig amount to just this one it docs does nat nit look loot like tat I 1 have been to see and I 1 dont like it some minds ar so constituted ax a to dislike what is unaccustomed 0 aier minds ar so constitute 1 aj to dislike dis liki what ia is unreason unreasonably abl if your mind is of tho the latter cla class jou will support simplified spelling if of the former you wil 11 tilly be reconciled to it for ii it wil be the customary way in the mean meantime tire we need ivea a ire re spelling altabet alf abet abot wi with th letters for each enell sound plot not to print books and papers in but solely to tel how words to bo be pronoun st in the forego dij barp drafs I 1 hav hay furnished an object lesson for those who shudder with taft fear that with the simplification of 0 spelling chiros wil come that every book up to that late wil wit bo be unread abl abl e hay been purposely writa written en in the style of ilia rules of 1886 agreed to by the filo logiste of england and america it wil be readily seen that they differ so slightly from ibe he current spelling that not the leant iroll woud be felt in reading cither either by those familiar wath w alth the other if tins this is true of the fil societies rules which covered many thousands of words what danger is to be apprehended from the modest of ofie aie simplified board |