Show MANY MANY- ERRORS IN SPELLING Orthographic Oddities Brought to Light by Dr Leonard P. P Ayres Ayres- Ay res- res Few Excellent Spellers Speller Seven out of every third third grade grade public school children in fn the United States cannot spell the word has according to a report just compiled by Dr Leonard P. P Ayres of the Russell Russell Russell Rus Rus- sell Sage foundation on the special problems inherent in the teaching of spelling Doctor Ayres' Ayres study also brought out many other orthographic oddities Doctor Ayres selected the 1000 words that constitute 90 per cent of the language ordinarily used This selection was made from various English English Eng Eng- lish authors from four Sunday newspapers newspapers news new papers and from the business and family correspondence of more than 2000 adults operating Co-operating with the school superintendents superintendents super super- in fn 84 cities of the United States Doctor Ayres had bad the 1000 t commonest words tested by an aggregate aggregate gate of spellings secured from public school children Nine words of most frequent use viz the the inH In tso so now man ten bed top revealed that se sere sec ond grade pupils on an average spelled correctly 94 per cent of or these words At the other extreme o of the scale of words Judgment recommend recommend mend and allege allego were found to b be bet spelled correctly by just 50 60 per c cent nl of grade eighth-grade pupils Doctor r Ayres finds There a are e very few exceedingly poor spen spellers rs many medium ones and nd very few ex excellent excellent ex- ex ones Few words do most of our work when we write Fifty words worde constitute with their repetitions one one- one one- r half of the words written The child who masters the 1 1000 O words on the on-the scale given will make no spelling errors er er errors errors er- er in tenths nine-tenths of his writing New Y York rk Times |